2/28 Missing Sale
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It seems like most of these mini sales by publishers are missed.
I would always check Tim Challie's Kindle Deals for Christians https://www.challies.com/kindle-deals-for-christians/ and then search for the titles on Logos. As long as it wasn't a Logos Research edition (with all the tagging), then it was nearly always the same price. I picked up quite a few books that way.
But it seems this is no longer the case. Is there some specific reason? Or is someone just dropping the ball somewhere, perhaps because they were just unaware?
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Donnie said:
It seems like most of these mini sales by publishers are missed.
I would always check Tim Challie's Kindle Deals for Christians https://www.challies.com/kindle-deals-for-christians/ and then search for the titles on Logos. As long as it wasn't a Logos Research edition (with all the tagging), then it was nearly always the same price. I picked up quite a few books that way.
But it seems this is no longer the case. Is there some specific reason? Or is someone just dropping the ball somewhere, perhaps because they were just unaware?
At the start of Covid a Faithlife employee suggested to me that they'd lost several publisher reps. That said I would have expected publishers to have alternative methods to contact their customers.
It surprises me that Christian publishers overlook Christian businesses and yet they extend the sale prices to Amazon without fail. I'm very selective in what I buy in Kindle format, but very trigger happy when it comes to sales of ebooks at Faithlife. Come on Christian publishers, I'm sure there are many like me, who would buy more of your sale books, if the prices were extended to Faithlife eBooks.
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Same here. I'd buy this book on FLEB instantly, but will stay away on Kindle.
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I don’t think Faithlife looks at these forums anymore but I’ll keep trying and hope
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It does seem that the problem might be at Faithlife.
Case in point, up until very recently, nearly every month there was a decent selection of $1.99 David C Cook publishing titles, and usually one or two free ones each month (not related to Logo's free books of the month). The prices would be the same on Amazon as well. But this stopped a few weeks ago.
And often discounted titles could be found from other publishers, too - Crossway, Revell, Baker, etc.
I made a link that I would check almost daily, looking for new books.
It basically excludes the romance and historical fiction, titles you already own, and is sorted by savings.
Generally, it seemed the price changes happened automatically - because sometimes I'd check at 5am EST and they'd already be changed. Occasionally there would be one that wasn't, and then later in the day it might be.
It was always a little confusing as it seemed like Faithlife made these great deals very difficult to find. If you just go to the site and browse books low to high, you have to wade through pages of romance and other garbage. It would seem like they'd want to make it easy for you to find titles that just had their prices drop.
It just sure seems like Faithlife is dropping the ball on this. I'd much rather have the book in Logos than Kindle. I think most of us would.
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