20p ebooks available in the Reader Store

[Thalamus.]

Hi all,

just noticed that there are a selection of 20p books available within the Sony Reader store..

If you wish to check out the titles on offer click on the following link - 20p ebooks

[carpetmojo]

It's a start  

But, I hate to say this, a bit clever for it's own good ?

Why on earth not ..."Free" ? 

I presume a marketing guru has said it is better to put a price on, makes them seem worth something, & stand out from all the common freebies on offer all over the place, but ........... well, I don't know, seems a bit silly & gimmicky somehow. Even a bit "clearance" sounding, unlike free, which smacks of a summink fer nowt, at least !:smileywink:

And one taken at random, Eye of the Needle, I found elsewhere at .20p, 99p [x3] and a quid.

So not that great an "offer", I'm afraid to say.

And only 11 at the "special" price of 20p ...................

There's an awful lot of cut-throat competition out there, with very good content, and while - it seems to me - the  T1 is rightly gaining popularity, I think the store must try harder if it's to catch up.

Because some a lot of the low-price or free stuff is high quality, modern classic standard.

A quick look at Smashwords, Waterstones, Inkmesh, MobileRead, Kobo et al, will serve to demonstrate what they're up against..... and that's without Gutenburg, the ereader flagship free Pub Dom source !

[nimbystripes]

I hope there are books available where you can feel that you have really saved a lot once your 20p has been used.

[SirMarky]

Not many of them though are there?

[Thalamus.]

SirMarky wrote:
Not many of them though are there?

Not counted how many in total there are but a quick look it would seem that you can get at least ten  eBooks for a only a £2 spend..