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Get The Next Story eBook for Cheap
- 03/01/11
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If you want to buy the e-book version of my forthcoming book The Next Story for a good price, here’s how: Pre-order it. Zondervan has put together a rather interesting promotion for the ebook. Here’s the way it works:
- The list price for the ebook at Amazon is currently $9.99.
- For every 200 copies pre-ordered, the price will fall by $1.
- This means that if we hit 1,000 copies sold, the price will fall all the way to $4.99 - half off.
- It means that if we were to get 5,000 copies pre-ordered, the price would fall to $2.99.
When the book releases on April 1, the price will return to $9.99.
What you need to understand is that Amazon does not actually charge you for the book until the day they deliver it. So if you order it at $9.99 and between now and April 1 the price falls, you will pay the lower price, not the price you pre-ordered it at. Understand? So that’s why if you’re going to buy the book anyway, we’d like you to pre-order it. If you do so, it increases the likelihood that you’ll end up paying less than the list price.
Now, some of your are Nook or iBooks users. Unfortunately we have not been able to work out this detail on those platforms; however, along the way we will see if there is a way for us to match the price.
So…if you’re a Kindle reader and are planning on reading The Next Story, why don’t you go ahead and pre-order. Then we’ll be 1/200th of the way to reducing the price by another $1. If enough people play along, you can get the book at a great discount.
If you want to pre-order a print version of the book, please click here.
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Comments (30)
done, but Amazon’s note says that it will be delivered on April 5.
I think Amazon’s wrong. They tend to shuffle the dates a lot (not just with this book—with any book). Either way, they’ll have it the day it’s first available.
I’ve done my part. Looking forward to it.
The UK Kindle price on Amazon.co.uk is showing up as GBP 10.52, which is a bit of jump from the US price. Not sure if you can do anything about that, but I did wonder if the discounting will apply to the non-US stores?
This is such a great idea! I did it with “Poke the Box” last week. It’s definitely increasing the number of books I’m buying—-OK—-it’s only two right now, but I think this pre-order and drive the price down thing is going to trend.
Tim,
I ordered the book, I look forward to reading it. Thank you for your all the hard work you put into your blogs and books. God bless you.
Ordered it a month ago… and very much looking forward to it. -k.
Done! Looking forward to reading it. Let’s bring the price down. Props to Zondervan for the great idea — win-win-win situation, for publisher, author and reader.
Done. Will you be able to post progress as we approach release date?
Great promo, but you may want to check your math. It should hit $2.99 at 1400 sold, I believe. At 5000 they’ll be paying us to take it :)
Done!
looking forward to it. hope you sell them by the truck load, or in this case, a hard drive full?
Done! And it will arrive just in time for my Spring Break vacation! Looking forward to reading your book while sitting on the beach on the Gulf Coast!
Hi Tim. For those of us from the UK, will this discount also be applied to the Amazon UK store?
For those of us from the UK, will this discount also be applied to the Amazon UK store?
We’re hoping so, but can’t guarantee it. Crossing the ocean changes things a lot, apparently.
Sometimes when reducing prices, Zondervan doesn’t reduce them for all international users of the US store. The price reductions will applied for international purchases right?
Sweet Tim. Already ordered a copy for my Kindle :)
Joanna - The best we’re able to do at this time is say, “We hope so.” I’m sorry, but we haven’t been able to work out the international details yet.
Thanks Tim. I’ll keep an eye on the price and see if the price drops get applied to us as well.
Pre-ordered it. Now could everyone else get their friends to do the same? I’d like a discount price :)
Looking forward to the NOOK or epub version, then I’m in.
I’ve thrown my hat into the ring and pre-ordered from the UK Kindle store. It will be totally worth the it I’m sure - the wife acceptance factor is very high on this purchase.
I was excited until I realized you were just talking about the Kindle version! If you do match the price at Barnes and Noble , I’d totally bite!
Done with my Kindle purchase. Any plans for the NOOK version?
DONE! Thank you for the heads-up, I was going to buy it sooner than later. :)
After all of the years spent reading your blog and conversing with you I was SHOCKED (from the video) to learn that I’ve been pronouncing your name wrong!
The “ch” is like “cherry”… I’ve been pronouncing it like a “k”.
I beg your pardon. :)
Congratulations, Tim; yours is one of the first books I’ve ever preordered (and one of the few I’ve actually paid for this year). Looking forward to reading it in a couple weeks.
Looking forward to it to reading it on my kindle app!
Someone wrote: “Done with my Kindle purchase. Any plans for the NOOK version?”
Does anyone else think this is just weird? Why do we accept having to buy books twice just read them in two almost-identical ways?
I would love to buy an e-book version of this book, but I’m not going to buy one from Amazon, who are going to restrict my rights to read it how, where and on what device I choose, lend it to whom I please and sell it to whom I please far more than my rights are restricted with a paper copy. I would encourage Tim to find an outlet for selling the eBook which does not use Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), so that we have all the freedoms with the eBook that we are used to with physical books.
EBook Users Bill of Rights: http://librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/2011/02/ebookrights.html
Gerv
Isn’t issuing an e-book, a self-fulfilling prophecy? Enjoyed chapter one, so I’m placing my order in another click or two… and I don’t even have a Kindle, lol.