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I'm not following you they own the eReader DRM. And they do use it to drive sales by discounting 5% when you chose that format.
I agree with you last year FW was excellent, and I saved lots of money back when they had their 50%,100% rebates. But they don't hold those specials anymore
Not this year you didn't, unless FW had a 100% rebate sale I did not hear about or you exclusively buy their 100% books.
While most of my books where purchased using FW and using their BW club plus their sales last year, it was a hassle. In the end the savings are close to what you would save at Amazon, BUT unlike FW you wouldn't have to binge spend $100-200 dollars over a weekend just to get the savings with Amazon the books are always discounted and one can moderate their spending.
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Better watch out who you call a liar. These are the sales that I can remember from this year:
100, 50, 50, 45, 35, 30, 30, 30, 30... And the smaller ones we won't bother with. Now most of those smaller ones were on specific genres. There have been a ton of 10-25s. Not even counting individual books (weeks with 8 100% rebate books, plus 35% rebate on author's titles). Then there were at least 2 wishlist specials.
I just ran my spreadsheet that I keep. I think I had emptied my micropay account at the end of last year. Here are the numbers for this year:
(BTW, I noticed this does include two books from Cyberread that I had a discount for)
Items: 115 (and 1 year membership purchase)
List Price: $1,065.42
CC Cost: $445.33
Savings $: $620.09
Savings %: 58.2%
Wow, it was even better than I thought. My overall savings for all books purchased over the 1 1/2 years I have bought from Fictionwise is 53.9%.
Now, we must also include the $83.88 micropay dollars in my account right now, and 1 free book coupon that I haven't used (there was a 100% rebate on membership a few weeks ago).
Looking at my records, the last member's 100% rebate sale was around June 20th, 2009.
Also, keep in mind that I am pretty lazy. Many of my purchases are on Sunday night before a sale ends (
). All I do is check my email, and the new books list each Monday. Then I jump on any decent sale. That is all you have to do. It can be done even without bying $1,000 dollars in books. Just trust in the Micropay.