On sale at Amazon for… $2.51?

Kindle owners rejoice. The ebook edition of Zombocalypse Now is currently on sale at Amazon for $2.51, which is 48 cents off of the manufacturer's suggested retail price, my friends. How this came about is actually a little bit of a story.



A few of months ago I started selling ZN through Google Books, and for whatever mathematical reason (seriously, 16%?) they discounted it from $2.99 to $2.51. It took Amazon a while, but they've responded to the ZOMBIE CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE PRICE WARS by lowering theirs to match. Unfortunately this means about a quarter less per copy in my pocket (with print books Amazon pays the publisher a set percentage of the cover price and they eat any discount, but with ebooks Amazon can theoretically price my book as low as they want, and pay based on the sales price).



I'm not stressing too much about the mountain in lost change, though -- the upside here is that there's never been a better time to buy Zombocalypse Now. And if you prefer your ebooks on some other ereader, you can always get it for that price from Google as well.



Now, if I could only get Amazon to start discounting the print edition again, we'd be in business...