Thread: Boycott all books over 9.99!!
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Old 02-10-2009, 01:38 PM   #14
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Just to add some facts to the discussion here is a link to the original Consumerist article I mentioned and here are the figures given:

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One Kindle owner on the above-mentioned discussion used jungle-search.com to sort titles by price, and posted that as of January 22nd, 2009, 29.65% of the books sold on the Kindle Store are priced above $9.99. Another forum poster broke it down by category:

Fiction 2%
Mystery/Thrillers 3%
Romance 1%
Literary Fiction 2%
Nonfiction 50%
Biography 15%
Computer/Internet 80%
Considering their promise is that all NYT best sellers and most new releases would be $9.99, I don't see the problem. They never promised that all books would be $9.99. I think 98% of all fiction being $9.99 or less is a pretty good fulfilment of their claims.
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