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Originally Posted by Atunah
I am still confused. How is it promoting if they list books that happen to drop in price. That is just a listing what is in the kindle store, sorted by the parameter one gets to set. How are they promoting scamlets that way. I don't get it.
You sort by price, by length, by genre. You get the results of what has its price lowered. That is it. Then you can sign up for emails of price reductions, kindleized items and authors. I guess they have a paid ad based email also like bookbub and the others, but I don't use that.
With my parameters I get to set, I don't see many scam books. And if they are there, it just means they had a price reduction that also fits the parameters I set.
I don't want a curated list of price reductions based on what authors paid to get on. That is what bookbub and all those are. I am not interested in that. I need what ereaderiq offers. A service to specifically target what I want to see. Not what someone pays for me to see. That is what sets them apart from all the others. The others just have a email, EQ has a chrome plugin and watch lists. Nobody else does that. So I hope they can stick around.
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I think the point that you are missing is that for some people, Amazon can do no wrong, so when they play hardball with other people, it's obviously because the other people must have done something wrong. I think that the straight forward explanation is that Amazon isn't nearly as interested in referrals as they use to be and would rather you go directly to Amazon so they can keep the referral fee. Plus if you go through Amazon, they have more opportunities to try to up sale you, or push you towards items that they are currently pushing.
I don't think that it's a coincidence that both authoralerts and this site, both which provide similar services, got dropped in roughly the same time frame.