Another sale not extended to Faithlife

Paul Caneparo
Paul Caneparo Member Posts: 2,646 ✭✭✭
edited November 20 in Resources Forum

Wipf have a $2.99 promotion every month on ebooks. This book is on sale at $2.99:

https://ebooks.faithlife.com/product/194455/what-the-bible-actually-teaches-on-women

Unfortunately not at Faithlife ebooks. 🙁

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  • scooter
    scooter Member Posts: 1,035 ✭✭

    Thanks, Paul, for keeping on Missing Sales.

    One could wonder if publishers contact FL.

    One can also wonder if anybody at FL actively monitors the market + detects sales.  Someone is not given enough time to  monitor + change the prices.

    I note Customer Paul is able to monitor.

    Will FL get this together?  Or are they ''short-staffed?''

  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 3,087
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1244379#Comment_1244379

    Will FL get this together?  Or are they ''short-staffed?''

    Don't know (obviously), but a publisher sale, giving up margin, doesn't necessarily translate to a reseller sale (giving up margin).  Especially if the customers are in the doldrums (info: The "doldrums" is a popular nautical term that refers to the belt around the Earth near the equator where sailing ships sometimes get stuck on windless waters.).

    And often there's co-op money extended resellers.  But not necessarily.

    Plus the folks at the Faithlife Distribution Center might be exhausted from the Logos 22 overwhelming demand.  Rumor has it the Bellngham bank put a limitation of cash deliveries per day.

    Appreciate Paul's thread, and the mention of a good book!

  • Paul Caneparo
    Paul Caneparo Member Posts: 2,646 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1244380#Comment_1244380

    I don't know how the margins work but you'd like to think that if the publisher sets the price, they allow the reseller to make an acceptable margin.

    For myself there are many books I'd buy only if on sale at Faithlife. In fact the majority of ebook sales I see on GospeleBooks website I pass up on, because I try to restrict my sales to Faithlife, so publishers are missing out on sales they might otherwise have received. In this instance I have bought in Kindle, but will gladly return and buy from Faithlife.

  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 3,087
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1244448#Comment_1244448

    True. And maybe FL dumping staff was/is more significant. Sometimes, I wonder if the Western world is currently in the 'Julian' stage (Roman emperor  who tried to rescue the gods by politics/force). 

    I 'monitor' my own acceptable price point. I used to be $30 (above, must need, not want). Then, $50. I bought much of my 'research' library then. Now, I'm at $20. Over that, better be good, or check Kindle.

    Kindle is bothersome, due to limited library tools. But, so it goes.

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