The £0.99-in-the-UK-for-one-day-not-too-long-after-publication thing is so common in established mystery series, and also at least some SF/fantasy series, that I agree, I have no idea why anyone would buy most new books rather than wait, unless it's a title you're just dying for and are going to read right away. OTOH, most folks - outside of MR - probably don't check the Kindle Daily Deal every day either, and/or have eReaderIQ hits on all their favorite authors
. It is price differentiation, but of such an extreme sort that it's hard to see how it makes sense. But I love it, and wish it would happen in the US too.
Oh, and then there are also the monthly sales that have a lot of books drop to £0.99 for a month - usually older titles in series, and lots of repeats, but they sometimes let you get a second bite at the apple if you missed the first one...
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Originally Posted by library addict
This just released May 27th (so a few days over 6 weeks ago).
Yay for sale but publishers really aren't incentivizing readers to pre-order or buy release week. Of course you never know exactly which titles they will do this with but sheesh!
I read it the day I paid full price for the ebook so it was worth it to me, but again sheesh.
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