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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Discounted every day no. Put on sale yes.
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Right.
If you happen to find a book *they* want you to buy when you are looking to buy it, you get a temporary lower price. If it's not a book you want, it might as well cost nothing. Or a million bucks.
But if the book you want is not a book they're promoting, tough luck.
We're talking average prices here (what you can expect on any random day) so the price that matters is the "everyday low price" not the lowest ever. After all, if you talk lowest price ever, most KDP titles can go free up to 5 days a month. Which isn't helpful to the discussion.
Outliers and exceptions say nothing about the global trends.
People who *only* buy books on sale (or free) are a very small part of the market. So are the totally-price insensitive. Most people buy (or don't) when a specific book catches their eye and meets their personal pricing expectations. Every person is different...
...but the market as a whole evens out those variations to render its verdict.
Individual titles here and there may be bargains, temporarily or even (for their author's fans) permanently but they are counterbalanced by the titles with declining acceptance. This is particularly true for debut authors whose sales are being gutted by the higher prices. (A topic that is belatedly being "discovered" by tne BPH apologists.)
Right now, the US market as a whole is saying BPH ebooks as a class are overpriced. And it is saying so through the double digit decline going on in an otherwise growing market. And it is saying so through the ongoing boom in Indie Inc sales and the ongoing decline in BPH market share.
Anecdotes aren't trends.