It is much clearer and more helpful than the old way of showing prices, and I think will cut down on the number of people who are dissatisfied with the pricing. It's particularly nice for community pricing.
I like part of it, but:
• I seriously dislike that the publisher name seems to have been dropped from most pages.
• I seriously dislike that they've cluttered it up with Runs on Mac and PC. The icons were much better.
• I absolutely hate how the price/month is shown with bigger font size than the actual price. I don't want to see any payment plan prices at all, but if they absolutely have to be there, make them very very small.
• I find Your Price a very confusing label for CP pages, since it stays the same regardless of what you've bid. I think people will have a hard time understanding that your price is not the same thing as your bid. I wish they finally came up with something that accurately described what it is. Leading bid, perhaps?
• Why on earth is the title grey instead of black? It should stand out and be easy to read, not disappear into the background so that you don't know what page you're on.
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EBC for £13.38 anyone? ... oh no ... it is the much smaller print. I do not know how many people would fall for this ... probably not that many ... but it is annoying to the rest of us.
• I seriously dislike that the publisher name seems to have been dropped from most pages
[Y] [Y] this is vital information in many cases ... Brill is different from DayOne, Zondervan is different from OUP [;)]
I'm not finding it very helpful for community pricing works that you have already ordered and are in production. The "Your Price" reflects the current prepub price rather than the price you will actually pay which is in small print at the bottom. I can see it confusing people even more.
And I completely agree that there should be away to remove the monthly pricing from being shown. It makes things cluttered and more difficult to know the actual price.
You're right. That's seriously misleading!
• I absolutely hate how the price/month is shown with bigger font size than the actual price. I don't want to see any payment plan prices at all, but if they absolutely have to be there, make them very very small. • I find Your Price a very confusing label for CP pages, since it stays the same regardless of what you've bid. I think people will have a hard time understanding that your price is not the same thing as your bid. I wish they finally came up with something that accurately described what it is. Leading bid, perhaps?
Amen to both!
I seriously dislike that the publisher name seems to have been dropped from most pages.
Technically, that doesn't have anything to do with the way we now display prices. We plan to bring it back, but in the meantime it's available elsewhere on the page.
I seriously dislike that they've cluttered it up with Runs on Mac and PC. The icons were much better.
Others have made the opposite comment and prefer the cleanness of text to the visual clutter of the icons.
I find Your Price a very confusing label for CP pages, since it stays the same regardless of what you've bid. I think people will have a hard time understanding that your price is not the same thing as your bid. I wish they finally came up with something that accurately described what it is. Leading bid, perhaps?
We'll reconsider this.
