Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Book Math

Though the Chances Are books were published in 2013, they still sell a few copies a month.  The thing I don't get though is almost all of those sales are the individual books, not the omnibus.  Here's a little math for you:

Books Separately:
Chance of a Lifetime:  FREE
Second Chance: $2.99
Last Chance: $2.99
Total:  $5.98

Omnibus containing all three books above:  $2.99

So if you buy the omnibus you save $2.99!  But people don't.  Hey, I like money, but it just doesn't make sense why people don't do that.

Or even better, buy the Gender Swap Six Pack that saves even more money:
Chance of a Lifetime:  FREE
Second Chance $2.99
Last Chance $2.99
Girl Power:  $0.99
The Impostors:  $2.99
League of Evil $2.99
Bonus: Girl Power Short Stories:  $2.99

That's a total of $15.94 of books for $2.99!  But people don't buy that either.  Far fewer people buy the Girl Power books anyway, maybe because the first one isn't free anymore.  Or maybe people don't buy the Six Pack (technically seven pack) because someone in the UK left a review 5 years ago saying it was only the Girl Power books.  Which I fixed...five years ago, but of course Amazon doesn't remove the review so people probably still think it's wrong because they don't bother to look.

Anyway, this happens with some Eric Filler books too; there are plenty of times where people buy a bunch of random Transformed books when it would have been cheaper to buy an omnibus or two with the same books.  Or some of the other series where people buy 3-4 books when they could just buy one omnibus and save money.

But oh well.  It's their money.  Which goes to me and Amazon--and eventually the IRS.

1 comment:

Maurice Mitchell said...

That is strange. Maybe just a lack of awareness?

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