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Originally Posted by Crusader
I decided to do a little experiment to compare how Fictionwise pricing fares against the Kindle store. The Kindlenatics (Kindle fanatics) over here seems to think the Kindle is the king of reader devices and that if it's not the Kindle store, no other ebook store exists.
I took the titles of 17 novels I purchased recently from Fictionwise and compared them to the pricing in the Kindle store. Two titles were not available at the Kindle store, so I'm using $5.59 (the lowest price in the list of titles) as substitute.
Kindle store: $119.97 (list pricing used)
Fictionwise: $105.59 (list pricing used)
Very close to each other. Fictionwise has a slight edge due to the current sale so for all intents and purposes we can call it an even match at this stage.
When the magic of Micropay rebates come into place it is a whole different story. Taking the rebates and a bit of well planned buying into consideration I actually spend only $42.51 (actual money) for my purchases.
Kindle store: $119.97 = $7.05 avg per book.
Fictionwise: $42.51 = $2.50 avg per book.
From that we can see that Fictionwise can definitely hold its own against the likes of the Kindle store. What it loses in slightly higher pricing it more than makes up for in Micropay rebates.
The lesson learned is that you should shop around to find the best deals. Don't feel that you have to stay tied to online one provider - even if that means you need to learn to remove the DRM to make ebooks from other shops compatible with your Kindle.
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This is true when you can get MP rebates for books bought with MP cash, but not when you can only get (substantial) rebates when you buy using your CC. As it was, this xmas season was very nice, but before you could hardly do anything with MP, because you would always be paying the list price -5-10% max for the books you bought with the MP credit.
That said, this past Xmas was wonderful