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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
Book 4 came out at $9.99 (tracking began 25 Feb 2015). It's price has changed 50 times in the past 987 days. Current price is $11.99 and the lowest it's ever been priced is $4.75, the highest it's ever been is $13.99
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They change the prices that frequently? With a swing from lowest to highest of almost 3-to-1? This would be another factor in sales of the eBook. You never know what it's going to cost from day to day. One day it's $4.75 and the next it's $13.99? Obviously they are playing with prices to see how much they can get. They'll jack the price up until nobody buys it anymore, then lower it to regain sales, then jack it up again, then lower it. With this frequent pricing change experiment going on, that's going to interfere with "normal eBook purchasing trends" as well.
With all this going on - (1) natural decline of a series readership, (2) lowered production run size, (3) large amount of intentional bogus books dumped on the internet, (4) piracy, (5) prices fluctuating all over the place - how can anyone conclude what caused what? My guess is that ALL played a part. And at different times, each factor played more or less of a part.