William Shirer Books $2.99 each [Ended] (US) [Amazon] (History)

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Catlady

When I looked at Rise and Fall last night at Amazon it was showing $2.99 as both the list price and the Amazon price. So I didn't buy it, assuming that it would show up at Kobo and BN for the same list price. Plus the last time I got titles from RosettaBooks at Amazon--freebies--I could not get them to convert to epubs, no matter what I tried.

My copy of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich translated perfectly to epub.




Don

[NightBird]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Update: Books are now back up to $9.99 each.


Don

Wow that was quick! Sorry you missed it.

Originally Posted by TimW

I relented and also purchased Berlin Diary at $2.99 about two hours ago. Just under the wire...

Those books were definitely nice finds by NightBird.

Thanks and I'm glad you were able to get it.

Originally Posted by easterncoyote

I wonder what's up with that. Do you think Amazon or the publisher raise the price on an ebook when they start to see increased interest? (not neccessarily actual purchases). At least I got The Rise and Fall at the lower price

Very hard to say what goes on behind the scenes. I never know which way to go. Sometimes they go back up to full price again like this one, sometimes I jump on them and they end up continuing to decrease or even become free.

I wouldn't be surprised to see these on sale again, though, so I will keep checking on them.

[easterncoyote]

[QUOTE=NightBird;

I wouldn't be surprised to see these on sale again, though, so I will keep checking on them. [/QUOTE]

Thanks Nightbird!

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

My copy of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich translated perfectly to epub.

Aw shoot. I think I would have been happier not knowing that!

[bgalbrecht]

Originally Posted by Catlady

Aw shoot. I think I would have been happier not knowing that!

With a Mobipocket file that's over 5 MB, I'll bet it took him a while to convert it. I'm surprised you had problems converted other Rosetta ebooks from mobi format to epub format. I've never hear of that happening before.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by bgalbrecht

With a Mobipocket file that's over 5 MB, I'll bet it took him a while to convert it. I'm surprised you had problems converted other Rosetta ebooks from mobi format to epub format. I've never hear of that happening before.

I went and made some hot chocolate and came back about 10 minutes later to check on it. It was finished.

I hope that Berlin Diary comes goes back on sale. I feel somewhat stupid for not getting it.



Don

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by bgalbrecht

With a Mobipocket file that's over 5 MB, I'll bet it took him a while to convert it. I'm surprised you had problems converted other Rosetta ebooks from mobi format to epub format. I've never hear of that happening before.

Copia had offered three Rosetta books free some months back, but there was a glitch and they wouldn't download. At some point Amazon also offered them for free, and I got them there.

On all three of them, they would apparently convert, but then I'd open them (using ADE as my viewer), and once I started to page through, they would crash the program. Since what they had in common was that they were all RosettaBooks, from Amazon, I made the assumption that other RosettaBooks titles would have the same issue.