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Originally Posted by binaryhermit

Project Hail Mary is $6.99 at Amazon US. Not *that* great of a deal, but a fairly new release and the lowest it's been.

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The price point makes me think this is the new price, rather than a temporary discount.

Originally Posted by binaryhermit

Perhaps, we'll see by the start of September or so.

But it's rather abrupt and also cheaper than The Martian or Artemis.

Originally Posted by j.p.s

It's been pretty common for a year or more for recently published books to be at that price point or even higher as a daily deal and the price went back up afterward, though it has been non-fiction books that I have noticed.

Originally Posted by binaryhermit

I'd argue that a blockbuster-ish ebook around that point is near the long-term sweet spot once you've gotten $14.99 from all the people who really want it, especially if Amazon's cut is less for prices between $2.99 and $9.99 like I seem to remember

Originally Posted by binaryhermit

Since it's the same price today, I suspect you're right, but we'll see next Tuesday if it's some sort of weekly deal (IIRC Tuesday is to books what Friday is to music, the day almost all the new books come out)

And it's back to $14.99 (on a Friday, and before September). I think one year is the typical hardcover price milking interval. That probably needs shortening, but I doubt publishers are ready to consider May through August long enough. This might have been pricing reasearch, an attempt to boost sales rank numbers, or just a traditional sale.