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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
After a month and a half of nothing. I wonder why they took the vacation?
Anyway, thanks for the heads up.
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The moment that I saw the post, I surmised that eStories had decided to discontinue the program altogether, but they found that it was causing them to lose business.
I, for one, had forgotten about eStories, altogether, as a vendor of audio books, since the time that they discontinued the daily deals. Having their daily deals being posted on MobileRead and on countless other websites, keeps their name in the forefront of people's minds.
In many of the B&M stores, and Internet stores, too, I suppose, there are these things called "loss leaders." They are products that the stores sell at _a loss_ (in other words, products that they lose money on), but utilize to get people in their stores and on their websites. The companies hope that the visitors will end up buying additional products, which the companies make a profit on, enough profit to offset their loss on the loss leaders. If they discontinue the loss leaders, this particular kind of store eventually will go out of business. Audio book stores may use daily deals as loss leaders.