E-Book Pricing Alerts

Discussion in 'Trek Literature' started by JD, Apr 4, 2017.

  1. Avro Arrow

    Avro Arrow Okie dokie! Moderator

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    In addition to those, I'm also seeing these now, at least here in Canada:

    $1.99

    TOS #10: Web of the Romulans
    TOS: The Latter Fire
    TNG #17: Boogeymen
    TNG #57: The Forgotten War
    DS9: I, Constable
    TLE: Catalyst of Sorrows
    DTI: Shield of the Gods
    The Fall: Revelation and Dust
    Seekers #1: Second Nature
    My Brother's Keeper: Republic
    My Brother's Keeper: Constitution

    $2.99

    TOS #76: The Captain's Daughter
    TOS: Errand of Vengeance: The Edge of the Sword
    TOS: Living Memory
    DSC: Wonderlands
    Shatnerverse: Dark Victory
    Hidden Universe Travel Guide: Vulcan
    Star Trek: Original Topps Trading Card Series

    $3.99

    TNG: Takedown
    Typhon Pact: Raise the Dawn
    The Impossible Has Happened: The Life and Work of Gene Roddenberry, Creator of Star Trek

    It's so great that we're finally getting these random sales up here! :D
     
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  2. DeepSpaceYorks

    DeepSpaceYorks Commander Red Shirt

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    Something a bit peculiar happening in the UK. We're getting reductions but to £1.59 instead of 99p! I bought James Swallow's Latter Fire yesterday but i notice today that several books have been reduced to £1.59.
    TOS Latter Fire
    TNG Typhon Pact book 5
    Seekers book 1
    TNG Blaze of Glory
    There's a couple of books reduced to £1.99 as well. Perhaps we have a new price point of £1.59?
     
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  3. Avro Arrow

    Avro Arrow Okie dokie! Moderator

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    A few more have shown up at $1.99 in Canada:

    TNG #34: Blaze of Glory
    TNG #35: The Romulan Stratagem
    DS9: The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition
    Typhon Pact: The Struggle Within
     
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  4. Corran Horn

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    US - $1.99

    Spartacus (Star Trek: The Next Generation Book 20)
    Chains of Command (Star Trek: The Next Generation Book 21)
     
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  5. Daddy Todd

    Daddy Todd Commodore Commodore

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    I don't think it's been mentioned that TNG: The Forgotten War is also $1.99
     
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  6. youngtrek

    youngtrek Commander Red Shirt

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    Just noticed (and bought) the following tonight (Friday) from Amazon U.S.:

    $0.99
    The Star Ghost (DS9 YA)

    $1.99
    Boogeymen (TNG)
    Blaze of Glory (TNG)
    The Romulan Stratagem (TNG)
    My Brother’s Keeper: Republic (TOS)
    My Brother’s Keeper: Constitution (TOS)
    The Forgotten War (TNG)
    Catalyst of Sorrows (Lost Era)

    $2.99
    Rise of the Federation: Uncertain Logic (ENT) (I didn’t have this one in either print or eBook. Now I’m just missing Tower of Babel in the Rise of the Federation series.)

    There were a few more in the $1.99 and $2.99 prices but I already had them (and are recent repeats, most or all of them). Real quick (not in my handy chronological order like the ones above but instead more or less in the Amazin Top 100 order), I see Spartacus (TNG), Web of the Romulans (TOS), The Latter Fire (TOS), Chains of Command (TNG), Contamination (TNG), Gamma: Original Sin (DS9), New Earth: Challenger (TOS), Sight Unseen (Titan), The Struggle (Typhon Pact), The Poisoned Chalice (The Fall), Revelation and Dust (The Fall), The Dominion War Book One and Book Three (the TNG ones), The Q Continuum Book One, Book Two, and Book Three (TNG), Death in Winter (TNG), The Genesis Wave Book One, Book Two, and Book Three (TNG), I, the Constable (DS9), The Final Reflection (TOS), Seekers: Second Nature, Twist of Fate (DS9), Absent Enemies (Titan), The Red King (Titan), Shield of the Gods (DTI), and Hearts and Minds (TNG).

    David Young
     
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  7. JWolf

    JWolf Commodore Commodore

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    A much better link is this to Kobo.com which gives you ePub. It will show you all the prices in order from low to high.
    https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/search?query=Star+Trek&pageNumber=1&sort=PriceAsc

    Not nearly as good a list but it is the US prices.
    https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?query=star+trek&pageNumber=1&sort=PriceAsc

    And Canada prices.
    https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/search?query=star+trek&pageNumber=1&sort=PriceAsc

    Given that Star Trek eBook have no DRM, it's trivial to convert ePub to something usable on a Kindle if that's what you want.
     
  8. Avro Arrow

    Avro Arrow Okie dokie! Moderator

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    I don't know how it is in other countries, but the Kobo Canada sort by prices functionality is broken to the point of unusability.

    Here's a screen capture from your own link:

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    It's sorted in price order (supposedly), but it only shows two books at 99 cents. The problem is there are currently eleven 99-cent books, so where are the other nine?

    Amazon's sort by price is much more reliable, to the point where it's better to get the list from Amazon and then search the appropriate titles directly on Kobo to buy them there. The only catch is that sometimes Amazon has exclusive sales that aren't available on Kobo.

    This has been a problem with Kobo's site for as long as I have used it.
     
  9. AygoSquirrel

    AygoSquirrel Ensign Red Shirt

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    The search link JWolf is using has so many results that Kobo is showing what it thinks are the most relevant results which will skip some of the books on sale (just above your screen shot should be the statement "Showing 1 - 12 of 96 most relevant results. Show all 11761 results"). That Show all... link will show all the results but there are many non Star Trek books in the results making it a pain to search through.

    What I do to get a smaller easier to search list is search for 'Star Trek' the ' around Star Trek is important as it limits the books to just those with that exact phrase, filter by books under $5 and sort by lowest to highest. I've been using that combination on Kobo Canada to find the books on offer and I find it easier to search through the list than Amazon.

    Here is the bookmarked search I use at Kobo Canada
    https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/search?q...ice=5&fcminprice=0&pageNumber=1&sort=PriceAsc
     
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  10. Avro Arrow

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    A couple of recent additions to the Canadian $1.99 list:

    TOS #77: Twilight's End
    SFA: The Delta Anomaly
     
  12. DWMarch

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    Thanks, @Avro Arrow, the Starfleet Academy series is new to me and does not show up in my search for "star trek pocket" so I would have missed that one if you hadn't mentioned it! These sales are coming fast and furious now and I don't want to miss any!

    Edit: thanks also to @Leathco for tagging the book with the most generic, un-searchable title possible, "The Star Trek Book"! It's a DK reference book and was well worth picking up at that price.
     
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  13. DeepSpaceYorks

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    Only Typhon Pact 5 and Blaze of Glory are still at £1.59. The other two, including the one I bought have shot back up to £11.99! Does anyone actually pay £11.99 for a ST ebook? That's about $15.
     
  14. Corran Horn

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    heh, I use 'star trek pocket kindle' myself. For what it's worth, that SFA book is showing that price in the US as well.
     
  15. Smiley

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    Shards and Shadows is showing up for $2.99 in the Daily Deals for Amazon.
     
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  16. Corran Horn

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    $2.99 (US):
    Greater Than the Sum: The Next Generation
    Tooth and Claw (Star Trek: The Next Generation Book 60)
    Infection: Double Helix, Book One (Star Trek: The Next Generation 51)
     
  17. Avro Arrow

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    A couple new ones showing up at $1.99 in Canada:

    TNG: Ship of the Line
    VOY: The Eternal Tide
     
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  18. Corran Horn

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    The Star Ghost (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Book 1) is 99 cents as well.
    (this is a younger readers book)
     
  19. HugeGreenburger

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    Hi all. Long time (non-account) lurker, first time poster! I'm sure someone will spot this in due course, but there's a batch of 99p deals on Amazon UK at the moment:

    TOS - Elusive Salvation
    TOS - Face of the Unknown
    ENT - Rise of the Federation: A Choice of Futures
    ENT - Rise of the Federation: Live by the Code
    VOY - Chrysalis
    TNG - Q Continuum

    The timing seems a bit odd given that we're only on the 24th, so thought it best to highlight just in case this is only a temporary offer and you've not yet bought any of these.
     
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  20. Avro Arrow

    Avro Arrow Okie dokie! Moderator

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    Welcome!

    That’s interesting, IIRC we typically hear from are UK members that the 99p deals are completely different from the North American 99 cent deals, so it’s nice to see so much overlap in this case (even if it didn’t start till later in the month). Maybe it will be the start of a trend.

    Here in Canada, the additional sales have dropped off a fair bit, but there are still a few. The only one currently on that hasn’t been mentioned previously is TNG #50: Dyson Sphere for $1.99.
     
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