“All Good Things…”, perhaps?
Amazon could still discount some, like they have in the past. And they have their Prime Week coming up.
— David Young
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“All Good Things…”, perhaps?
Amazon could still discount some, like they have in the past. And they have their Prime Week coming up.
— David Young
I feel like they always seem to discount books that have been discounted before, too; I can't remember the last time they offered anything I was looking for (although to be fair, there is quite a large pile to choose from, and I'm picky).
I remember not too long ago there was a month or two where Amazon kept putting seemingly random Trek novels at $1.99 for a day, maybe two, and then bumping them back up to regular price (and discounting some others, again for just a short period). I managed to get quite a few of the ones that I still didn’t have during that month or so.
— David Young
They're really going to make me pay a crazy kindle price for Titan: Sword of Damocles, aren't they?
I keep waiting for Dave Stern's Enterprise novel Rosetta to go on sale. As much as I want it I'm not paying $15.99 for an ebook. That's just crazy. It's the only Star Trek novel I've seen priced that high.
for sure - I look on the amazon page and I see 'Mass Market Paperback purchased on Jan 22, 2006'.
Sorting my Amazon.ca list from highest to lowest price, I've got:
These Haunted Seas at $35.99, which kind of makes sense because it's an omnibus however it's only two novels, both of which I have individually and both of which I got on sale.
The Continuing Missions Vol. I at $25.99. Also an omnibus or anthology.
TNG Technical Manual at $24.99 which I don't find too absurd but which I am also not yet willing to pay.
Seven Deadly Sins at $24.99 which seems high for a short story collection.
The Sky's The Limit at $22.99, another expensive anthology.
Terok Nor: Dawn of the Eagles at $22.99, the one book of the three that hasn't gone on sale.
Klingon BOP Haynes Manual at $21.99 for the Kindle version but isn't published by Pocket so it might never go on sale.
SNW Asylum at $20.99 which makes sense because it is new.
SNW Toward the Night at $20.99, see above.
SNW Ring of Fire at $20.99, see above.
Titan Sword of Damocles at $19.99 for no good reason at all since every other Titan book has been on sale.
TOS Burning Dreams at $19.99 for no readily apparent reason.
New Frontier No Limits at $19.99, reasonable for an anthology and probably worth it but I want to pay less for this.
The Academy: Collision Course at $19.99 because it's a Shatner book?
TOS Constellations at $19.99 for an anthology, no idea if this one would be a good buy at this price.
TOS Unspoken Truth at $19.99, second MWB book to be stuck at a high price. Is it because she is no longer with us? I have noticed Tom Clancy and Anne Rice books don't tend to go on sale either.
TNG A Time to Harvest at $19.99, no idea why.
TOS Cast No Shadow at $19.99, no idea why.
TNG A Time to Heal at $18.99, others in this series have been on sale before.
TNG Genesis Force at $18.99. All the other Genesis Wave books have been on sale.
TOS Harm's Way at $18.99, I think this is new-ish but it has been on my wishlist for 3 years now.
TNG Pliable Truths at $18.99, also new-ish.
Enterprise Logs at $17.99, probably a decent price for an anthology.
The Captain's Table 1-6 Omnibus is only $13.99 which is a fantastic price for six novels in one big book.
I was hoping they'd start iterating through sales for the "A Time To..." series once they started a few months ago, but...
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We still might. Keep in mind they've been doing these sales for YEARS every month. An off month might be necessary to give us certain other deals later.
It’s interesting that they seem to have handled it by extending the June sales though. According to last month’s version of the sale page, the June sales were supposed to end on June 29, yet as of today, they’re still going. So they technically do still have sales on in July (at least so far), they are just the same books from June.
I’m not going to worry about the monthly sales being over for good, until we have more than one month to go on. IIRC, this isn’t the first month they’ve ever skipped. In fact, wasn’t there a time at the start of a year a few years ago when they skipped the first two or three months? I was worried they were over then, but they still came back.
Who knows, maybe it’s something as mundane as the person who normally sets the sales was on vacation at the “wrong” time, and they didn’t have any backup. Working in a corporate environment, this wouldn’t surprise me at all!
I’m not going to worry about the monthly sales being over for good, until we have more than one month to go on. IIRC, this isn’t the first month they’ve ever skipped. In fact, wasn’t there a time at the start of a year a few years ago when they skipped the first two or three months? I was worried they were over then, but they still came back.
Who knows, maybe it’s something as mundane as the person who normally sets the sales was on vacation at the “wrong” time, and they didn’t have any backup. Working in a corporate environment, this wouldn’t surprise me at all!