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BearMountainBooks · 12-03-2009, 09:47 AM

There is also no guessing what Amazon will discount -- when or why. Before I was published on Kindle other self-published authors were telling me how to price to get Amazon to discount. Apparently for a while, Amazon discounted $1.00 books to .80 cents. Other already low prices were discounted also. But then it stopped, no warning, no reason. (And I'm not saying they should offer a rhyme or reason.)

While I'd love for Amazon to do a discount that didn't cost me, I'm not going to make any decisions on where to publish based on discounts. Not unless they publish a formula...

12-03-2009, 09:47 AM	#35
BearMountainBooks Maria Schneider Posts: 3,746 Karma: 26439330 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Near Austin, Texas Device: 3g Kindle Keyboard	There is also no guessing what Amazon will discount -- when or why. Before I was published on Kindle other self-published authors were telling me how to price to get Amazon to discount. Apparently for a while, Amazon discounted $1.00 books to .80 cents. Other already low prices were discounted also. But then it stopped, no warning, no reason. (And I'm not saying they should offer a rhyme or reason.) While I'd love for Amazon to do a discount that didn't cost me, I'm not going to make any decisions on where to publish based on discounts. Not unless they publish a formula...