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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
I believe that the points needed to buy a book are based on the current price. For example, Open Road Media has about 300 SF books priced at $1.99 (they're having another sale), and their list price is $7.99, based on the price of other ORM books by the same author. The sale priced books only need 2400 points, but the normal priced books need 4000 points.
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Usually the publisher sets a sale price by temporarily reducing the list price, so the points will be reduced too. But if they did it by increasing the discount, then the points won't change.
From what I've seen, if two points-eligible books have the same list price (undiscounted price) then they always have the same points price, regardless of the final discounted price. But if you compare discountable and non-discountable books at the same discounted price, the non-discountable ones usually need fewer points because they have a lower list price. For example:
(Edit: The prices in these screenshots include 15% tax, but the points are based on the tax-exclusive price, so they will not necessarily match the values in other countries where the tax rate is different or the prices don't include tax.)