Amazon’s Encore Program just launched the Kindle version (along with paper book version) of Maria Murnane’s Perfect on Paper: The (Mis)Adventures of Waverly Bryson.
It’s rated 4.5 stars on 139 customer reviews – Please do see if it’s something that interests you.
Here’s what the author says -
I wrote this book for any woman who has ever had a really bad date or realized halfway through the work day that her skirt is on backwards.
You can read up more about Maria Murnane (and the other 2 Encore authors whose books release today) in this post describing Amazon Encore Authors’ backgrounds or on her blog.
Also released are -
- A Wish After Midnight by Zetta Elliott which is rated 4.5 stars on 13 reviews and priced at $6.22.
- They Never Die Quietly by D. M. Annechino for $7.18. It’s rated 4.5 stars on 51 reviews.
The Better Amazon Encore does the lower eBook Prices Go
At the moment Random House and smaller publishers are the only ones sticking to $9.99. We basically end up with 4-5 of the Big 6 Publishers taking on all other Publishers for pricing.
If the Amazon Encore program does well then it creates a new sustainable and cheap source of content and it scares Publishers into either lowering their prices or keeping quality of eBooks high to justify the price. Perhaps even both.
It really helps if we buy any Encore titles that interest us – It gives Amazon the momentum to keep expanding the Encore program. These are generally good and very good authors – Amazon’s probably using some pretty detailed algorithms and pattern matching to figure out which authors are likely to be successful.
Do let us know if you really like any of the books (they do have pretty good reviews).
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Thanks for providing the information! I didn’t know anything about these books, so I hope other blogs will also pick up on the importance of the AmazonEncore books as well. While the three books available for Feb didn’t appeal, I’ve pre-ordered one due out in March and hope others will check out the 10 books available now/soon (and presumably more coming in the near future). To find them, I did a search under the Kindle store for AmazonEncore.