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Originally Posted by Hrafn
Three months is a very narrow window -- many ongoing series would have their last book published longer ago than that. Of the four books from my Fantastic Fiction "New books by your authors/'Kindle'" which also turn out to be from this time window (for some reason the 'All formats' option also included many more, but also much older books), one had a Kindle price above its Print price: example |
I don't follow series. I was thinking of books that had recently been published in hardback when I gave a three month window.
That particular example looks like it's a victim of agency pricing. The ebook and the paperback are priced the same, $7.99. Amazon can offer a discount on the paperback, but they aren't allowed to offer discounts on ebooks. That's why the ebook price has the little 'Price set by seller' comment.
I'm more familiar with examples like Elevation by Stephen King. Hardback (with discount) is $13.96. The ebook is $9.99. The Reckoning by John Grisham is $15.69 in hardback and $9.99 in ebook. The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu is $13.66 in paperback and $9.99 as an ebook and was on sale yesterday for $2.99.