I think that many people-especially those who had enabled the 1-click option-bought the book for the regular price, just because they didn’t double-check the price before clicking on the Buy with 1-click button. A much worse kind of geo-restriction is that the book is available for foreign customers-but at a regular, no-discounted price. One type of geo-restriction is that the book is not available at all in your country. The bad thing is, very often there are geo-restrictions. Yes, the good thing is that Amazon doesn’t add an international fee when you buy Kindle Daily Deal books from abroad. For a user living outside the U.S., I can say that the Kindle Daily Deal is more about teasing than buying. Another topic to discuss is availability. In a pre-Christmas heat, in October only, as much as 20 Kindle Daily Deal books made it to the Top 100 in the Kindle Store! Kindle Daily Deal is about taking books from a mid-list and making them bestsellers. (The thinking goes like this: If the book is a bestseller, why should I discount it?) Yes, we had Sara Gruen and Michael Connelly Kurt Vonnegut comes back frequently (and today we have Breakfast of Champions) a couple of days ago there was Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins-but it’s not enough to associate Kindle Daily Deal with bestsellers. “An author I know nothing about.” I have to admit, I would say that about 95 percent of the Kindle Daily Deal authors. That’s why many self-publishers increase the price to $2.99 and use KDP Select to occasionally offer their books for free. to buy a mystery novel featured on KDD from an author they know nothing about for a deal price of $0.99.to buy a self-published mystery novel from an author they know nothing about for a regular price of $0.99.Even if it’s not a bestseller (there actually weren’t enough bestsellers featured on KDD-more about this issue later in the post), it has the advantage of being the discounted book. Every day you have a heavy-promoted competitor, which in most cases is a more popular book than yours. It no longer pays to sell a self-published book for $0.99. I’m very fond of self-published and indie books and was the last one to acknowledge this fact, but in the end I had to do it. Since August 24, 2011, the landscape changed dramatically. Before it launched, the $0.99 price tag was mostly associated with self-published novels. Kindle Daily Deal is one of the most important factors in switching price expectations of Kindle users. If you buy 10 books per year that are featured in the Kindle Daily Deal, you can save $60 (who knows, maybe even for a next-generation Kindle)-although this would only due to the fact that you’re checking Kindle Daily Deal every day, and are open to read books from various genres and authors. To be closer to life: if you bought just 10 Kindle Daily Deal books, you would: Therefore, based on the figures from the report, we could say that, theoretically, in the first year, if you were buying Kindle Daily Deal books every day, you would: I’ve been observing Kindle Daily Deal on a regular basis, and haven’t noticed any downward or upward trend in prices and discounts. Below is one of the charts, showing a price split: In October of last year, I prepared a report about Kindle Daily Deal, based on its first fifty books. What’s more important: frequent visitors who buy a lot more than just e-books from Daily Deal. It’s interesting to observe how Kindle Daily Deal is doing and how it evolves, as it is Amazon’s important tool in turning Kindle owners from occasional users into frequent visitors. Since that time, the discount mantra comes back every night around 12:00 AM, Pacific time. Yesterday’ price – $5.59, today’s discount – $4.20, Kindle Daily Deal price – $1.39. The first featured book was The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo. You may or may not receive a reason.A year ago, on August 24, 2011, the Kindle Daily Deal was launched. Failing to do so will end up on your post being removed and/or your account banned. When posting in r/Kindle, make sure you adhere by our guidelines. Piracy Any piracy talk (including website names) will result in removal of your thread/comments and may result in a permanent ban. Amazon dropped the Kindle name from the tablets a few years back. Please use new Reddit for up to date information and sub rules.įire tablets are not Kindle e-readers. Note - Old Reddit is not maintained in this sub. Have questions before you buy a Kindle product or accessory? Want to know more about any of the products? Have news or tips to share? Join our friendly members. This subreddit is for everything Kindle related.
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