05-06-2011, 03:14 AM | #1 |
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It's sometimes worth pre-ordering at Amazon
I've just got notification of the arrival of a pre-ordered Kindle ebook on Amazon UK.
I pre-ordered A Mighty Fortress by David Weber on 8th April at a price of £5.59 — just 6p cheaper than the paperback that was due out as well. My notification today told me that I purchased the ebook for £4.68. The current price shown at Amazon UK is £5.38. The paperback is still £5.66 (Amazon discounted price). Good to see that Amazon's pre-ordering price promise actually works - you get the product at the cheapest price it's been offered between your pre-order time and the release date. |
05-06-2011, 12:34 PM | #2 |
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It is nice - when it does work. Sometimes it takes an email or a phone call to remind them of their own policies - but they always follow through.
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05-06-2011, 05:29 PM | #3 |
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They do generally honor it, but it doesn't actually apply to ebooks (1-they are not on the list of products where it applies and 2 - there is no displayed low pre-order price guarantee language on the ebook pages, which are required). One reason is due to the Agency model, where they can't adjust a price after it is ordered (yet Penguin seems to be able to cancel your pre-orders without notice or consequence, if they decide they want to increase a price ... so, always keep track of your pre-orders or just don't do it with Penguin).
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05-07-2011, 03:12 AM | #5 |
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05-07-2011, 07:02 PM | #7 |
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Why exactly does one need to pre-order an ebook? There are no physical property limitations-they can make as many as they want.
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Sometimes, ebook sellers have discounts for pre-ordering (perhaps pre-orders can help with making predictions of print runs leading to less numbers of unsold copies). From the consumer's pov, it's more of a "why not pre-order an ebook"? Last edited by thrawn_aj; 05-07-2011 at 07:15 PM. |
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05-08-2011, 05:28 AM | #10 |
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It does seem to be different to the US version — different cover, different illustrations (well, poorer quality illustrations - assuming the version I had previously 'found' was the official US version), and different internal markup. I certainly haven't noticed any formatting problems.
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05-08-2011, 05:31 AM | #11 |
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Simply for the convenience. If I notice that an eBook will be released on a particular date, it suits me to order it now, and know that it will get delivered to my Kindle as soon as it's released, rather than risk forgetting about it later.
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