It’s over for Apple: Supreme Court denies certiorari in e-book pricing case

It’s over for Apple: Supreme Court denies certiorari in e-book pricing case

It’s the end of the line.

I’ve been writing about this literally for years, and it has been a very important story. It’s also been perhaps a tale of unexpected consequences.

First the quick headline, then some thoughts about it.

On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States denied Apple (and a bunch of other cases) “cert”. What that means is that they did not certify that Apple’s loss at a lower court level in a case brought against it by the United States Department of Justice over e-book pricing deserved additional review.

The lower court’s ruling was clear enough that it didn’t need to be re-examined.

Even simpler: Apple loses.

Consumers will get some credit to buy e-books.

Now, let’s look at the stories within the story.

Apple is vulnerable

The DoJ also went after the biggest U.S. trade (the kinds of books you would have bought in a bookstore…not textbooks and such) publishers…all of which settled.

Apple fought on, and many people figured Apple had the resources to fight on as long as they wanted.

The thought was that Apple is so big, has so much money, and does so many court cases that, unlike the publishers, it was worth it for them to keep pouring money into this.

One again, they lost.

I’m not sure, but it’s possible the vacancy on the Supreme Court affected this. I’ve read that Justice Scalia would likely have supported Apple…and if this needed a majority and it was split (they don’t tell us much when they deny cert), that would have done it.

The tradpubs made a crucial strategic error

Here was the situation:

Amazon entered the very marginal e-book market (Sony was in it, but not much was happening in the USA with e-books) in 2007.

Part of their strategy was to promote that most bestsellers and new releases would be under $10…considerably less than the hardback equivalents (at least based on the publisher’s suggested retail price…but even discounted, those hardbacks were often above $10).

To do that, they clearly often sold the books at a loss: they paid more to the publisher than they got from the customer.

The publishers didn’t like that.

One of  their biggest concerns was “price value perception devaluation”. Who would pay $25 for a hardback when, according to Amazon, $9.99 was the right price for a popular new release novel?

While it does cost somewhat less to produce an e-book than a hardback (an early analysis said it was about 12.5% lower, as I recall…many of the costs, such as editing, lay-out, legal are the same), the margin on hardbacks (the profit you can make) was higher…and they were selling a lot more p-books (paperbooks).

What could they do, though? Realistically, if they wanted to be in the exploding e-book business, they pretty much had to go with, and cooperate with, Amazon, which absolutely dominated the market.

Then, in the tradition of tempting Apples 😉 , the maker of the iPod offered the tradpubs (traditional publishers) a path.

Apple was getting ready to release a new device…a small, flat, super-portable  computer. There were precedents in fiction (Star Trek: The Next Generation’s PADD, for one), but what would become the massively successful iPad was a big project.

The hardware innovator wanted to include books as part of the package and launch. It’s questionable if they really were that focused on the books in and of themselves, or whether they saw them more as a selling point for the device. If Apple hadn’t been introducing the iPad, would they ever have launched the iBooks store?

They wanted to get  the prestige of having the major publishers onboard, and they knew those companies weren’t happy with Amazon.

Apple offered to let the publishers set the prices the consumers paid (within certain parameters) through something called the “Agency Model”.

The Agency Model is not, in and of itself, illegal. The DoJ alleged that Apple and the tradpubs coordinated in its use to raise e-book prices…that was the problem.

In my opinion, the tradpubs made a very big error.

They accepted the plan, and raised  e-book prices on the most popular titles.

Why was it a mistake?

I’m seeing so many stories reporting this as it slowing the growth of the e-book market…perhaps critically wounding it.

I don’t think that’s what happened at all.

What it did was cede the market, in large part, to indies (independent publishers).

Indies had a very hard time having much of an impact on p-book sales. I was the manager of a brick-and-mortar bookstore…it just wasn’t practical for us to carry independently published books, for the most part. They didn’t have the resources to make selling their books practical. If I needed 100 copies in two days, they couldn’t do it, for example.

E-books changed all that.

You didn’t need book factories and distribution Godzillas. You didn’t have to fight for shelf space…it was pretty much infinite.

Indie e-book sales were present before the Agency Model came into being in 2010, but I think that move by the publishers and Apples greatly accelerated the market growth for the “outsiders”.

When I did an analysis of USA Kindle store bestsellers in January 2012, three of the top twenty them were from indies:

Top 20 analysis January 22 2012

When I did a similar analysis in January of this year, the story was different: none of the top ten were from Big 5 publishers.

None of the top 10 bestselling USA Kindle store books are from the Big 5

That’s not exactly apples to apples (so to speak), but it seems very clear to me.

At least at Amazon, the Big 5 share of the market for bestsellers has significantly eroded.

I think the tradpubs thought that raising e-book prices would mean that they would make more money…because people would keep buying their books at the same rate.

Instead, many readers instead discovered other options…and they’ve stuck with them.

You can’t undo that discovery.

The news stories reporting e-book slowed growth are actually reporting the Association of American Publishers reporting slowed growth…which might be more than offset by indies (although those stats are hard to get).

I think the publishers may also have wanted to “teach Amazon a lesson”. They did: they taught Amazon that the e-tailer could do its own publishing, at least for e-books, and do very well. 😉 Brick-and-mortar bookstores didn’t, for the most part, want to carry Amazon’s p-books, but in e-books, they are often at the top of Amazon’s bestseller list (thanks in part to Kindle First books (at AmazonSmile*)).

It’s about journalism

This case would have been very different without journalism.

Journalist Walt Mossberg was chatting with Steve Jobs at the iPad launch…and Jobs said that e-book prices would be the same at the then launching iBooks store and Amazon.

All Things Digital post by Kara Swisher

That was major evidence against Apple.

I think it’s also important to note that, while Mossberg had mainstream credentials, this was much more a new media incident. It wasn’t a sit down interview. It wasn’t even an ambush interview at Apple’s front door. It was a casual exchange which was recorded on a handheld, shaky Flip cam (remember those?), and then posted online.

You can watch the video (the e-book exchange is right at the beginning) in that Kara Swisher post (I’m relinking for those using screen readers: All Things Digital post by Kara Swisher).

I think those are the three main stories. It’s possible the pay-out to we consumers will boost the e-book business…we’ll get a credit to buy more e-books, as I understand it, not cash.

While this has been an important story, and I’m happy to have been able to provide whatever help to people in understanding it and its implications that I could, I won’t deny some relief in seeing its conclusion.

What do you think? Have questions? Do you think this was a good decision? How does it affect the future of e-books? Feel free to tell me and my readers what you think by commenting on this post.

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* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get.  Shop ’til you help!  

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5 useful Amazon Kindle Help Pages

5 useful Amazon Kindle Help Pages

Amazon has been working on their Help Pages, and I do think they’ve made some improvements. The pages now tend to have clearer step by steps, videos, and the rules which might impact what you are trying to do. If you don’t find the answer you need, feel free to ask or you can go to

http://www.amazon.com/kindlesupport

There are several ways to contact them, but I usually have them call me. My phone will ring in seconds and I’m typically speaking to someone in under a minute.

Okay, here are some useful pages:

Borrow Books from a Public Library (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)

Manage Newsstand Subscription Settings (at AmazonSmile*)

Quick Fix: Slow or Frozen Screen (at AmazonSmile*)

Return Kindle E-books (at AmazonSmile*)

Amazon FreeTime Web Browser FAQs (at AmazonSmile*)

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* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get.  Shop ’til you help!  

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Open eBooks now available to connect students with free e-books

Open eBooks now available to connect students with free e-books

I said years ago that I thought the traditional publishers would participate in making e-books available to those of lesser means on a needs-tested basis.

Those tradpubs used to donate p-books (paperbooks) a lot…it was one of the reasons why, when I was the manager of a brick-and-mortar bookstore, we couldn’t donate the “strips”.

What’s a “strip”?

When a brick-and-mortar buys a book from most large publishers, they are guaranteed that they can sell it. If they don’t sell it, they can get credit from the publisher to purchase other books.

Naturally, you had to prove you didn’t sell it.

You could mail the whole book back, but that’s expensive…so we would tear the covers off paperbacks and send them back in an envelope.

Well, my employees would do it…I really had a hard time emotionally with tearing a book apart like that.

After you tear the cover off, you still have a book you can read. I wanted to donate them to local organizations, but I was told we couldn’t do that. However, we could simply identify the organization to the publisher, and generally, they would donate books to them (I think they had to have the right tax status, but I’m not sure).

Since tradpubs did that, I figured they would do needs-tested licensing of e-books…they aren’t losing sales to someone who couldn’t afford the book otherwise.

We haven’t really seen that with the general public through public libraries or directly through the publishers, but I was excited to see an initiative start up for students.

WhiteHouse.gov blogpost by R. David Edelman, Special Assistant to the President for Economic and Technology Policy

explains the program, and as an introductory video by Michelle Obama.

It’s probably important to note that this isn’t a government program…it was “…created by a breakthrough coalition of literacy, library, publishing, and technology organizations who worked together over the past year to make the initiative possible.”

Baker & Taylor, a major book distributor, is involved…but so are ten (so far) tradpubs:

• Bloomsbury: Providing unlimited access to over 1,000 of its most popular titles.
• Candlewick: Providing unlimited access to all relevant children’s and young-adult eBook titles in their catalog.
• Cricket Media: Offering full digital access to all of its market-leading magazines for children and young adults, including Ladybug and Cricket.
• Hachette: Offering access to a robust catalog of their popular and award-winning titles.
• HarperCollins: Providing a vast selection of their award-winning and popular titles.
• Lee & Low: Providing unlimited access to over 700 titles from this leading independent publisher of multicultural books.
• Macmillan: Providing unlimited access to all of the K-12 age-appropriate titles in their catalog of approximately 2,500 books.
• National Geographic: Providing unlimited access to all of their age-appropriate content.
• Penguin Random House: Committing to provide an extensive offering of their popular and award-winning books.
• Simon & Schuster: Providing access to their entire e-catalog of books for children ages 4-14, comprised of 3,000 titles.

As you can see, that includes all of the Big 5 largest US trade publishers.

There is a lot of information available at the official site:

http://openebooks.net/

The basic workflow is that “…Any adult who works in a Title I (or Title I eligible) school, or a program or library that serves at least 70% of children from in-need families” signs up, and is then provided codes for their students.

The students can each have up to ten books out at a time, and keep them as long as they want…which is similar to Amazon’s paid subscription service,

Kindle Unlimited (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)

That’s pretty much it. 🙂

Some people wonder about the children being able to access the books…do lower-income children actually have access to devices on which to read the books?

Some devices are donated, but I thought this was a fascinating statistic in the WhiteHouse.gov post:

“According to a national survey, 85 percent of families with young children (6-13 years old) living below the poverty line have access to mobile devices.”

Amazing!

When the Kindle was first introduced in 2007, it cost about $400.

This doesn’t say that they actually own them, just that they have access to them. It does show, though, how important and mainstream they’ve become.

With a $50 device, and access to Wi-Fi (and there a lot of places to find that for free), the family could have TV, e-mail, a homework resource, and more.

Now, thanks to this program, they can probably also have access to in-copyright e-books.

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* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get.  Shop ’til you help!  

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Meanwhile, at Barnes & Noble: NOOK books out of UK, financials are “in the groove” (of vinyl records)

Meanwhile, at Barnes & Noble: NOOK books out of UK, financials are “in the groove” (of vinyl records)

NOOK Bookstore is no more for the UK

I have readers in the UK (and in many other countries…hello, world!) and I have readers who use NOOKs (B&N has been inconsistent with the capitalization).

That’s one reason I wanted to share this

BBC Technology post

However, it’s also instructive for e-book users everywhere.

According to the post, Barnes & Noble is discontinuing their NOOK E-book store in the UK on March 15th …(there is something about that date…the Ides of March and all. “Et tu, B&N?”).

You won’t be able to buy NOOK books in the UK through the website, the Android app, or on your NOOK devices.

Before the end of May, you’ll have to follow instructions to migrate the books on your account for which you have already paid in order to be able to keep them.

Migrate them where?

B&N is working with supermarket Sainsbury’s.

That’s the instructive part.

I’ve said many times that I think the odds are higher that my descendants will have access to my Kindle store books than to my roughly 10,000 p-books (paperbooks).

I’ve been asked, when I say that, what happens if Amazon goes under?

I find that a pretty unlikely scenario. I like their corporate philosophy of Price, Discount, Service, and I think they are making some growth-oriented (and sustainability-oriented) moves generally.

If they did, though, I’ve suggested that someone else would buy our accounts. They would be very valuable. That doesn’t mean that everything would be the same…we might start paying for storage, for example.

This case, though, does appear to illustrate that.

I don’t expect Sainsbury’s to start selling e-books, although they might, and they might partner with somebody.

If they don’t, how do they make the money to pay for storing and managing the books?

Ads, perhaps? An annual fee? Not sure…

“Books? Oh, yeah, I think we still have some…”

Speaking of Barnes & Noble, they just had 3rd quarter financial results reported.

press release

It wasn’t good, but it was less bad in some areas.

So, do literature lovers have reason to cheer the nation’s largest bookstore?

Well, if you count coloring books… 😉

As was made clear in this

New York Times post by Alexandra Alter

B&N’s loss offsetting gains came in things like toys and games…and vinyl records.

Are they on their way to becoming a booklessstore? 😉

The post goes on to talk about the relative strength in independent bookstores. I agree with that. Barnes & Noble has been contracting. Indie bookstores have been growing.

The article also says, “The company’s results come at a time when bookstores may be making a comeback and e-books, which have been perceived as print killers, are losing popularity.”

That second statement is one I would like to see defended…and not by the stats they quote from the Association of American Publishers.

My guess is that more e-books are being  sold…it’s just that AAP-reporting publishers may have a diminishing percentage of that market.

Indie publishers, and Amazon’s traditional publishing, may be growing rapidly enough to reduce the tradpubs (traditional publishers) share.

I also wanted to note that Barnes & Noble lost a lot less on the NOOK this time…but I think that’s not because the NOOK is rebounding, but because it is getting towards the bottom of bleeding out. The less you have, the less you have to lose. Let’s say that you have 100 units of something. It falls off 50%, so you’ve lost 50 units…that sounds terrible. If you continue to lose 50% a year, it only takes three more years before your loss is less than ten units a year (100 to 50 to 25 to 12.5 to 6). So, you could report, by counting your losses (not the percentage), that your loss rate in the last year (you lost 6) is much better than that first year when you lost 50…you only had 12% of the loss. It doesn’t change the trend, though.

Will B&N drop NOOK books in the USA?

I don’t see that happening right away…when they came into the USA, the market was more fluid than it was when they came into the UK. That enabled the NOOK to gain a stronger market share in the USA than in the UK.

If they do make that decision, though, I do think someone would be likely to buy the accounts (Kobo might be a suitor, but it also might be just an investment group of some kind).

Is the loss of the NOOK books in the UK good or bad for Kindle owners?

I think it’s bad…I like competition, it tends to drive innovation.

Not terrible, and not surprising, but I don’t think it’s a benefit.

I expect B&N to stick around, but with fewer books in them until they become like vinyl records…

What do you think? What’s the future of B&N in the USA? Do you worry about what could happen with your Kindle books in the future? How does the presence of NOOK books in the USA affect Kindle owners? Feel free to tell me and my readers by commenting on this post.

Update to a post from yesterday: my new post comparing the five (counting the Fire TV and Fire TV Stick separately) Amazon Alexa devices…

Echo, Dot, Tap, or Fire TV? Which Amazon Alexa device is right for you?

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All aboard our new The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip at The History Project!

*When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get.  Shop ’til you help!  

This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog. To support this or other blogs/organizations, buy  Amazon Gift Cards from a link on the site, then use those to buy your items. There will be no cost to you, and a benefit to them.

Two NEW Amazon Alexa devices announced

Two NEW Amazon Alexa devices announced

I’ve written about the details here, but I wanted to give you my readers here a heads-up, since these could sell out and/or get long waiting lists:

The Alexa family grows! Two NEW devices from Amazon

Update: here’s my new post comparing the five (counting the Fire TV and Fire TV Stick separately) Amazon Alexa devices…

Echo, Dot, Tap, or Fire TV? Which Amazon Alexa device is right for you?

Join thousands of readers and try the free ILMK magazine at Flipboard!

All aboard our new The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip at The History Project!

*When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get.  Shop ’til you help!  

This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog. To support this or other blogs/organizations, buy  Amazon Gift Cards from a link on the site, then use those to buy your items. There will be no cost to you, and a benefit to them.

Monthly Kindle Deals for $3.99 or less each: March 2016

Monthly Kindle Deals for $3.99 or less each: March 2016

Amazon does the Kindle Daily Deal (at AmazonSmile…benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*), which used to discount four books a day (often general fiction, a romance, a science fiction/fantasy book, and a kids’ book). Now, it seems like it is generally more books than that, and not categorized.

They also do Monthly Kindle Book Deals for $3.99 or less each (at AmazonSmile). There used to be about 100 of them, but there are ten times that now: 339 at the time of writing…about a quarter of the number in January. They are up to 85% off…but in a return to form, none of them are more than the normal $3.99 top limit.

Those prices only apply to the USA, and one weird thing is that some of the books seem to sell out at that price sometimes (or become unavailable for some other reason).

Another thing is that 134 f them are available through

Kindle Unlimited (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)

Amazon lists that information prominently…and it’s now commonly a filter in search results. If they are, then you need to consider whether it is worth buying them…even at these low prices. While they are in KU, you can, if you are a subscriber (and there’s a free month available right now), read them at no additional cost. There are, of course, advantages to owning books, especially if you want to re-read them. A book could move out of KU at any time. Even if you think you want to own it, if you are a KU member, you could always read it first to make sure. 😉 I will mark them with KU.

By the way, in the new version of the

eReaderIQ advanced search

you can make KU a filter. So, you can search for books by an author, a keyword, an average customer review which you can read as part of your KU membership…nice! I’m not associated with eReaderIQ except as a user (we have had some correspondence), but I do think it is the most valuable website for Kindleers.

I’m going to list some of the books in this sale that caught my eye…I’m not necessarily recommending them, but I do think they are interesting.

The ones I link (if I actually link to specific books) also don’t block text-to-speech access**…but I think blocking it is becoming rarer.

• Hunting Eve (Eve Duncan Book 17) by Iris Johansen
• Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words: With Topical Index by W.E. Vine and Merrill F. Unger
• In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Prose by Alice Walker
• The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (KU)
• The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson (I’ve read and enjoyed this one. It became a George Clooney movie…one of a couple of movies that let me know that Clooney and I sometimes read the same books…)
• Missy’s Murder by Karen Kingsbury
• The Berenstain Bears and the Golden Rule (Berenstain Bears/Living Lights) by Michael Berenstain and Stan Berenstain
• While Still We Live by Helen Macinnes
• Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy Frost and Gail Steketee
• Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life by Tom Robbins
• Fast Forward: How Women Can Achieve Power and Purpose by Melanne Verveer and Kim K. Azzarelli
• Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix
• The Eternal Champion: The Eternal Champion Sequence 1 by Michael Moorcock
• The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (Knickerbocker Classics) by H. P. Lovecraft
• Fancy Nancy by Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser
• Warriors: Dawn of the Clans #1: The Sun Trail by Erin Hunter and Wayne McLoughlin
• The Kickstarter Handbook: Real-Life Success Stories of Artists, Inventors, and Entrepeneurs by Don Steinberg
• Malestrom: Manhood Swept into the Currents of a Changing World by Carolyn Custis James
• Abandon by Blake Crouch (KU)
• Burglars Can’t Be Choosers (Bernie Rhodenbarr Series Book 1) by Lawrence Block
• Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Zora Neale Hurston and Maya Angelou
• The War of the Worlds Murder (Disaster Series) by Max Allan Collins
• Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson
• Penetration – the Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy by Ingo Swann (it was headline news when the government reportedly tried, and abandoned, training military personnel to use extrasensory perception ((also the topic of The Men Who Stare at Goats))…Swann was, allegedly, brought in as a trainer)
• 1969: The Year Everything Changed by Rob Kirkpatrick
• Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik
• The Winner’s Curse (The Winner’s Trilogy Book 1) by Marie Rutkoski
• Winter Wind by J.R. Rain (KU)
• Ask Him Why by Catherine Ryan Hyde (KU)
• Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin by Piers Bizony and Jamie Doran
• Tartine by Elisabeth Prueitt and Alice Waters
• Rock with Wings (Leaphorn and Chee Mysteries Book 20) by Anne Hillerman
• A Fall of Moondust (Arthur C. Clarke Collection) by Arthur C. Clarke
• Quarry’s Choice by Max Allan Collins
• The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
• I’m Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem by Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell
• Keep Quiet by Lisa Scottoline
• Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
• The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
• Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Memoir by Steven Tyler
• A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (A Harvest/Hbj Book) by Flannery O’Connor
• The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence by Paul Davies
• Vegan Sandwiches Save the Day! by Celine Steen and Tamasin Noyes
• She Can Run (She Can Series, Book 1) by Melinda Leigh (and more books in the series) (KU)
• Alas, Babylon (Harper Perennial Olive Edition) by Pat Frank and David Brin (this one would make a good gift for geeks) 🙂
• A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
• Miracle at the Higher Grounds Café by Max Lucado
• Alien: Out of the Shadows (Novel#1) by Tim Lebbon
• Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It by Davis, Garth, M.D. and Howard Jacobson
• Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire

It’s definitely worth looking at the list: I’d be surprised if you couldn’t find a gift for somebody here (e-books from the Kindle store can be delayed until the appropriate gift giving occasion).

If there were others you’d like to mention for me and my readers, please comment on this post.

Prime members, don’t forget to pick up your

Kindle First books (at AmazonSmile*)

You can get one of the six (same as last month…previously, it had been four) books to own (not borrow) for free…these are books which will be actually released next month. The choices this month are:

• The Big Fear by Andrew Case (thriller)
• While You Were Mine by Ann Howard Creel (historical fiction)
• The Queen’s Poisoner (The Kingfountain Series Book 1) by Jeff Wheeler (fantasy)
• Orchids and Stone by Lisa Preston (suspense)
• Twenty Yawns by Jane Smiley, Lauren Castillo (children’s picture book)
• The Light of the Fireflies by Paul Pen, Simon Bruni (literary suspense)

People like to know which one I pick…and this month, I decided to go with the Jane Smiley picture book. I try to make our e-book library inclusive for other people who may be on it in the future…and hey, I like children’s books.

Enjoy!

Bonus deal: there are fifteen books in the Kindle Daily Deal (at AmazonSmile…benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*) today, including several titles each by Joe R. Lansdale, Sherrilyn Kenyon, and Joanne Fluke.

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* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get.  Shop ’til you help!  By the way, it’s been interesting lately to see Amazon remind me to “start at AmazonSmile” if I check a link on the original Amazon site. I do buy from AmazonSmile, but I have a lot of stored links I use to check for things.

** A Kindle with text-to-speech can read any text downloaded to it…unless that access is blocked by the publisher inserting code into the file to prevent it. That’s why you can have the device read personal documents to you (I’ve done that). I believe that this sort of access blocking disproportionately disadvantages the disabled, although I also believe it is legal (provided that there is at least one accessible version of each e-book available, however, that one can require a certification of disability). For that reason, I don’t deliberately link to books which block TTS access here (although it may happen accidentally, particularly if the access is blocked after I’ve linked it). I do believe this is a personal decision, and there  are legitimate arguments for purchasing those books. 

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Today (March 2nd) is Read Across America Day

Today (March 2nd) is Read Across America Day

Today is the NEA’s (National Education Association’s) Read Across America Day!

Official Site

This is an event…actually, lots and lots of events, focused on children reading, and especially on reading to children.

You can even pledge to do your own event at the site above.

I was interested to see that there are also events taking place outside the USA (Hong Kong; Alexandria, Egypt; Minsk, Belarus…), although they seem to focus on English-speaking and perhaps American students.

Why March 2nd?

It’s the birthday of

Dr. Seuss (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)

I would suggest that Theodor Geisel (birth name) may be one of the most influential authors to get children into the fun of reading.

Certainly, the rhyming helps…it makes it possible to memorize an entire book before you can read it, which makes it easier to then associate the words with the sounds (since you know which words go with which pictures and pages).

However, I think it’s also important that not everything is happy in a Seussical world.

There are real conflicts and concerns. There is even social commentary.

The Cat in the Hat is certainly not the sort of completely even-keeled, happy, conformist type of character that some people think exemplifies children’s literature.

The Cat is a rebel. Even though there is a voice of reason (in a fish bowl) arguing against the mischief, it’s there.

Green Eggs and Ham is all about a conflict.

I think having real emotions, and real reactions to events, helps the Dr. Seuss books resonate with children (and other humans). 🙂

I recently got for my birthday and read

Dorothy of Oz (at AmazonSmile*)

by Roger S. Baum, the great-grandson of L. Frank Baum.

I’m a big Oz fan, and I really appreciated getting the book (I actually got a hardback as a collector’s item, and then bought the above Kindle version to read).

However, it didn’t feel very much like my beloved Oz books, despite having a pretty good knowledge of the points of fact from the originals.

One of the biggest things that stood out to me is that there was really no conflict between the “heroes”.

In the originals, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion, and Dorothy often have conflicts of opinion. They have to at least talk out their different points of view. They respect each other, certainly, and they are really friends…but that doesn’t mean they instantly agree on everything all the time.

Roger S. Baum’s version doesn’t have that…it appears that being a good person means that you agree with all of the other good people all of the time.

That’s not the world Dr. Seuss shows us…

Lest I be taken for a dogmatic Zax, though, I can understand people wanting to read conflict-free books to their kids…this just wasn’t a good tonal match for the Baum (or Ruth Plumly Thompson, for that matter) books.

That’s one of the great things about reading! Every book is a way to see the world from a different viewpoint than yours, which I think is one of the most valuable things in the world.

Enjoy Read Across America (and the world) Day!

What do you think? Are you involved in any events today? Does conflict belong in children’s books? Feel free to tell me and my readers what you think by commenting on this post.

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Snapshot: March 1, 2016

Snapshot: March 1, 2016

I generally run this information through eReaderIQ.com (it’s just easier than Amazon), and there are some vagaries in the searches (both there and on Amazon). I do try to run it the same way every time, so unless Amazon changes something, it should give you a pretty good idea.  NOTE: I’ve changed this explanation from saying “Jungle-Search.com” to “eReaderIQ.com”. It’s the same people and I assume the results are the same. eReaderIQ is just for the Kindle, Jungle-Search does Amazon generally. eReaderIQ has a slightly better interface for the searches.

Titles in Kindle Store

March 1, 2016: 4,356,852
February 1, 2016: 4,260,301
January 1, 2016: 4,168,071
December 1, 2015: 4,046,825 (note: as I projected, the USA Kindle store broke 4 million titles)
November 1, 2015: 3,961,896
October 1, 2015: 3,875,694
September 1, 2015: 3,799,009
August 1, 2015: 3,714,509
July 1, 2015: 3,636,269
June 1, 2015: 3,530,378
May 1, 2015: 3,457,009
April 1, 2015: 3,378,436
March 1, 2015: 3,288,124
February 1, 2015: 3,178,962
January 1, 2015: 3,104,677
December 1, 2014: 3,027,234
November 1, 2014: 2,958,430
October 1, 2014: 2,888,225
September 1, 2014: 2,801,221
August 1, 2014: 2,724,012
July 1, 2014: 2,655,727
June 1, 2014: 2,596,747 (2,597,112 for second run)
May 1, 2014: 2,576,453
April 1, 2014: 2,512,520
March 1, 2014: 2,462,832
February 1, 2014: 2,411,705
January 1, 2014: 2,351,290
December 1, 2013: 2,287,866
November 1, 2013: 2,229,223
October 1, 2013: 2,175,847
September 1, 2013: 2,081,800
August 1, 2013:  2,060,431
July 1, 2013: 1,998,705
June 1, 2013: 1,972,277
May 1, 2013: 1,940,274
April 1, 2013: 1,924,138
March 1, 2013: 1,913,164
February 1, 2013: 1,849,479
January 1, 2013: 1,805,001
December 1, 2012: 1,742,991
November 1, 2012: 1,641,362
October 1, 2012: 1,579,329
September 1, 2012: 1,531,069
August 1, 2012: 1,486,649
July 1, 2012: 1,451,504
June 1, 2012: 1,407,210
May 1, 2012: 1,358,922
April 1, 2012: 1,315,927
March 1, 2012: 1,265,632
February 1, 2012: 1,207,522
January 1, 2012: 1,165,654
December 1, 2011: 1,112,876
November 1, 2011: 1,058,635
October 1, 2011: 1,033,611
September 1, 2011: 995,265 (roughly 40,000 removed one day: PLR?)
August 1, 2011: 1,015,056
July 1, 2011: 980,434
June 1, 2011: 974,841
May 1, 2011: 937,831
April 1, 2011: 897,663
March 1, 2011: 868,351
February 1, 2011: 828,708
January 1, 2011: 796,131
December 1, 2010: 768,865
November 1, 2010: 743,692
October 1, 2010: 714, 663
September 1, 2010: 687,246
August 1, 2010: 659,479
July 1 2010: 627,343
June 1 2010: 596,300
May 1 2010: 509,229
April 1 2010: 476,653
March 1 2010: 450,625
February 1 2010: 415,100
January 1 2010: 401,773
December 1 2009: 385,484
November 1 2009: 368,813
October 1 2009: 342,865
September 21 2009: 355,805
July 28 2009: 332,813
May 16 2009: 284,491

Approximate average of titles added per day:

March 1, 2016: 3,329
February 1, 2016: 2,975
January 1, 2016: 3,911
December 1, 2015: 2,831
November 1, 2015: 2,873
October 1, 2015: 2,556
September 1, 2015: 2,726
August 1, 2015: 2,524
July 1, 2015: 3,530
June 1, 2015: 2,446
May 1, 2015: 2,619
April 1, 2015: 3,225
March 1, 2015: 3,899
February 1, 2015: 2,396
January 1, 2015: 2,581
December 1, 2014: 2,293
November 1, 2014: 2,265
October 1, 2014: 2,900
September 1, 2014: 2,491
August 1, 2014: 2,276
July 1, 2014: 1954
June 1, 2014: 655 (2nd run: 689)
May 1, 2014: 2,131
April 1, 2014: 1,603
March 1, 2014: 1,826
February 1, 2014: 1,949
January 1, 2014: 2,046
December 1, 2013: 1,995
November 1, 2013: 1,779
October 1, 2013: 3,135
September 1, 2013: 689
August 1, 2013: 1,991
July 1, 2013: 881
June 1, 2013: 1,032
May 1, 2013: 538
April 1, 2013: 354
March 1, 2013: 2,274
February 1, 2013: 1,435
January 1, 2013: 2,000
December 1, 2012: 3,388
November 1, 2012: 2,001
October 1, 2012: 1,609
September 1, 2012: 1,433
August 1, 2012: 1,134
July 1, 2012: 1,476
June 1, 2012: 1,558
May 1, 2012: 1,433
April 1, 2012: 1,622
March 1, 2012: 2,004
February 1, 2012: 1,351
January 1, 2012: 1,703
December 1, 2011: 1,808
November 1, 2011: 807
October 1, 2011: 1,278
September 1, 2011: -638
August 1, 2011: 1,117
July 1, 2011: 186
June 1, 2011: 1,194
May 1, 2011: 1,339
April 1, 2011: 946
March 1, 2011: 1,416 (corrected from last post)
February 1, 2011: 1,051
Taken January 1, 2011: 880 (average for December 2010)
December: 839
November:  968
October: 914
September: 896
August: 1,037
July: 1,035
May: 2,809 (may be affected by Penguin return)
April: 1,086
March: 840
February: 1,146
January: 430 (may be impacted by Macmillan removal)
December 2009: 525
November: 556
October: 837

Magazines:

March 1, 2016: 699
February 1, 2016: 685
January 1, 2016: 684
December 1, 2015: 667
November 1, 2015: 646
October 1, 2015: 632
September 1, 2015: 638
August 1, 2015: 636
July 1, 2015: 632
June 1, 2015: 631
May 1, 2015: 630
April 1, 2015: 643
March 1, 2015: 647
February 1, 2015: 638
January 1, 2015: 638
December 1, 2014: 643
November 1, 2014: 646
October 1, 2014: 652
September 1, 2014: 652
August 1, 2014: 649
July 1, 2014: 650
June 1, 2014: 668
May 1, 2014: 671
April 1, 2014: 684
March 1, 2014: 671
February 1, 2014: 675
January 1, 2014: 670
December 1, 2013: 669
November 1, 2013: 653
October 1, 2013: 652
September 1, 2013: 630
August 1, 2013: 628
July 1, 2013: 628
June 1, 2013: 626
May 1, 2013: 620
April 1, 2013: 609
March 1, 2013: 605
February 1, 2013: 601
January 1, 2013: 586
December 1, 2012: 573
November 1, 2012: 567
October 1, 2012: 558
September 1, 2012: 547
August 1, 2012: 510
July 1, 2012: 497
June 1, 2012: 476
May 1, 2012: 469
April 1, 2012: 453
March 1, 2012: 430
February 1, 2012: 409
January 1, 2012: 370
December 1, 2011: 340
November 1, 2011: 132
October 1, 2011: 129
September 1, 2011: 127
August 1, 2011: 119
July 1, 2011: 115
June 1, 2011: 110
May 1, 2011: 93
April 1, 2011: 86
March 1, 2011: 81
February 1, 2011:  80
January 1, 2011: 74
December 1, 2010:  83
November 1, 2010: 84
October 1, 2010: 80
September 1. 2010: 70
August 1, 2010: 64
July 1, 2010: 61
June 1, 2010: 60
May 1, 2010: 58
April 1, 2010: 53
March 1, 2010: 50
February 1, 2010: 46
January 1, 2010: 43
December 1, 2009: 40
November 1, 2009: 38

Newspapers:

March 1, 2016: 172
February 1, 2016: 172
January 1, 2016: 169
December 1, 2015: 168
November 1, 2015: 168
October 1, 2015: 168
September 1, 2015: 172
August 1, 2015: 173
July 1, 2015: 173
June 1, 2015: 173
May 1, 2015: 172
April 1, 2015: 173
March 1, 2015: 172
February 1, 2015: 170
January 1, 2015: 175
December 1, 2014: 174
November 1, 2014: 174
October 1, 2014: 174
September 1, 2014: 175
August 1, 2014: 174
July 1, 2014: 175
June 1, 2014: 177
May 1, 2014: 178
April 1, 2014: 175
March 1, 2014: 175
February 1, 2014: 176
January 1, 2014: 176
December 1, 2013: 179
November 1, 2013: 179
October 1, 2013: 181
September 1, 2013: 181
August 1, 2013: 181
July 1, 2013: 179
June 1, 2013: 180
May 1, 2013: 185
April 1, 2013: 181
March 1, 2013: 198
February 1, 2013: 201
January 1, 2013: 200
December 1, 2012: 198
November 1, 2012: 202
October 1, 2012: 200
September 1, 2012: 201
August 1, 2012: 204
July 1, 2012: 201
June 1, 2012: 199
May 1, 2012: 195
April 1, 2012: 194
March 1, 2012: 193
February 1, 2012: 190
January 1, 2012: 188
December 1, 2011: 211
November 1, 2011: 191
October 1, 2011: 184
September 1, 2011: 177
August 1, 2011: 176
July 1, 2011: 176
June 1, 2011: 169
May 1, 2011: 167
April 1, 2011: 164
March 1, 2011: 161
February 1, 2011:  156
January 1, 2011: 153
December 1, 2010: 148
November 1, 2010: 145
October 1, 2010: 144
September 1, 2010: 138
August 1, 2010: 135
July 1, 2010: 136
June 1, 2010: 133
May 1, 2010: 128
April 1, 2010: 118
March 1, 2010: 107
February 1, 2010: 93
January 1, 2010: 89
December 1, 2009: 76
November 1, 2009: 58

Blogs:

March 1, 2016: 15,144 (ILMK rank: #9)
February 1, 2016: 15,156 (ILMK rank: #10)
January 1, 2016: 15,122 (ILMK rank: #8)
December 1, 2015: 15,071 (ILMK rank: #8)
November 1, 2015: 15,030 (ILMK rank: #8)
October 1, 2015: 14,983 (ILMK rank: #8)
September 1, 2015: 14,923 (ILMK rank: #8)
August 1, 2015: 14,883 (ILMK rank: #8)
July 1, 2015: 14,837 (ILMK rank:#8)
June 1, 2015: 14,768 (ILMK rank: #8)
May 1, 2015: 14,679 (ILMK rank: #8)
April 1, 2015: 14,648 (ILMK rank: #9)
March 1, 2015: 14,588 (ILMK rank: #8)
February 1, 2015: 14,419 (ILMK rank: #8)
January 1, 2015: 14,392 (ILMK rank: #10)
December 1, 2014: 14,337 (ILMK rank: #14)
November 1, 2014: 14,267
October 1, 2014: 14,189 (ILMK rank: #11)
September 1, 2014: 14,151 (ILMK rank: #12)
August 1, 2014: 14,089 (ILMK rank: #13)
July 1, 2014: 13,985 (ILMK rank: #13)
June 1, 2014: 13,924 (ILMK rank: #8)
May 1, 2014: 13,811 (ILMK rank: #10)
April 1, 2014: 14,525 (ILMK rank: #8)
March 1, 2014: 14,382
February 1, 2014: 14,221
January 1, 2014: 14,030
December 1, 2013: 13,867
November 1, 2013: 13,742
October 1, 2013: 13,521
September 1, 2013: 14,792
August 1, 2013: 14,555
July 1, 2013: 14,432
June 1, 2013: 14,157
May 1, 2013: 14,552
April 1, 2013: 14,234
March 1, 2013: 13,870
February 1, 2013: 13,461
January 1, 2013: 13,110
December 1, 2012: 13,559
November 1, 2012: 13,178
October 1, 2012: 12,908
September 1, 2012: 12,417
August 1, 2012: 12,087
July 1, 2012: 12,759
June 1, 2012: 12,680
May 1, 2012: 12,914
April 1, 2012: 13,295
March 1, 2012: 13,038
February 1, 2012: 13,984
January 1, 2012: 13,571
December 1, 2011: 13,178
November 1, 2011: 14,286
October 1, 2011: 15,116
September 1, 2011: 14,801
August 1, 2011: 14,477
July 1, 2011: 14,053
June 1, 2011: 13,616
May 1, 2011: 12,901
April 1, 2011: 12,502
March 1, 2011: 12,080
February 1, 2011: 11,355
January 1, 2011: 11,087
December 1, 2010: 10,585
November 1, 2010: 10,255
October 1, 2010: 10,056
September 1, 2010: 10,036
August 1, 2010: 9,716
July 1, 2010: 9,429
June 1, 2010: 9,228
May 1, 2010: 9,094
April 1, 2010: 8,944
March 1, 2010: 8,754
February 1, 2010: 8,651
January 1, 2010: 7,992
December 1, 2009: 7,589
November 1, 2009: 7,365

Percentage of books priced from one penny to $50 that are under ten dollars

February, 2016 (taken March 1, 2016): 85.2% (3,522,742 of 4,133,304)
January, 2016 (taken February 1, 2016): 85.2% (3,440,910 of 4,038,776)
December, 2016 (taken January 1, 2016): 85.0% (3,350,232 of 3,490,070)
November, 2015 (taken December 1, 2015): 84.9% (3,242,119 of 3,818,499)
October, 2015 (taken November 1, 2015): 84.7% (3,166,691 of 3,736,839)
September, 2015 (taken October 1, 2015): 84.8% (3,096,037 of 3,652,166)
August, 2015: (taken September 1, 2015): 85.3% (3,048,620 of 3,575,587)
July, 2015 (taken August 1, 2015): 85.3% (2,969,714 of 3,482,960)
June, 2015 (taken July 1, 2015: 83.9% (2,893,481 of 3,408,090)
May, 2015 (taken June 1, 2015): 84.7% (2,800,318 of 3,306,054)
April, 2015 (taken May 1, 2015): 84.6% (2,736,106 of 3,232,290)
March, 2015 (taken April 1, 2015): 88.4% (2,802,470 of 3,171,379)
February, 2015 (taken March 1, 2015): 88.3% (2,721,649 of 3,083,344)
January, 2015 (taken February 1, 2015): 88.4% (2,630,162 of 2,976,291)
December, 2014 (taken January 1, 2015): 88.3% (2,567,412 of 2,907,638)
November, 2014 (taken December 1, 2014):88.3% (2,506,715 of 2,838,606)
October, 2014 (taken November 1, 2014): 88.4% (2,451,370 of 2,774,474)
September, 2014: (taken October 1, 2014): 88.2% (2,387,727 of 2,707,622)
August, 2014: (taken September 1, 2014): 87.9% (2,304,717 of 2,621,516)
July, 2014 (taken August 1, 2014): 87.7% (2,232,131 of 2,544,623)
June, 2014 (taken July 1, 2014): 87.7% (2,172,079 of 2,477,343)
May, 2014 (taken June 1, 2014): 74.6% (294,759 of 395,137) | Second run (to account for possible Amazon glitching): 87.6% (2,121,022 of 2,422,630)
April, 2014 (taken May 1, 2014): 87.6% (2,106,603 of 2,404,221)
March, 2014 (taken April 1, 2014): 87.6% (2,054,771 of 2,346,730)
February, 2014 (taken March 1, 2014): 87.5% (2,012,504 of 2,300,490)
January, 2014 (taken February 1, 2014): 87.7% (1,976,453 of 2,254,215)
December, 2013 (taken January 1, 2014): 88.1% (1,932,395 of 2,193,346)
November (taken December 1, 2013): 88.0% (1,875,538 of 2,130,446)
October (taken November 1, 2013): 88.0% (1,823,817 of 2,073,157)
September (taken October 1, 2013):  87.7% (1,777,735 of 2,024,990)
August (taken September 1, 2013): 88.5% (1,706,130 of 1,928,837)
July (taken August 1, 2013): 87.9% (1,681,162 of 1,913,454)
June (taken July 1, 2013): 87.7% (1,627,666 of 1,855,614)
May (taken June 1, 2013): 87.8% (1,605,912 of 1,828,577)
April (taken May 1, 2013): 87.8% (1,582,685 of 1,801,844)
March (taken April 1, 2013): 88.1% (1,573,845 of 1,785,986)
February (taken March 1, 2013): 88.4% (1,564,429 of 1,770,452)
January (taken February 1, 2013): 89.6% (1,534,604 of 1,713,256)
December (taken January 1, 2013): 89.9% (1,502,267 of 1,671,220)
November (taken December 1): 89.8% (1,451,437 of 1,615,716)
October (taken November 1): 90.0% (1,371,227 of 1,522,810)
September (taken October 1): 90.1% (1,322,272 of 1,466,890)
August (taken September 1): 90.0% (1,278,733 of 1,421,168)
July (taken August 1): 89.9% (1,240,642 of 1,379,399)
June (taken (July 1): 89.7% (1,204,888 of 1,343,776)
May (taken June 1): 89.8% (1,1174,668 of 1,308,331)
April (taken May 1): 89.9% (1,113,793 of 1,261,606)
March (taken April 1): 89.6% (1,089,619 of 1,215,625)
February (taken March 1): 89.7% (1,044,889 of 1,165,368)
January (taken February 1): 89.4% (994,448 of 1,112,467)
December (taken January 1): 89.0% (955,187 of 1,073,539)
November (taken December 1): 88.8% (907,647 of 1,021,647)
October (taken November 1): 88.7% (859,492 of 968,948)
September (taken October 1): 88.6% (835,590 of 943,545)
August (taken September 1): 88.4% (803,271 of 908,602)
July (taken August 1): 89.1% (829,823 of 931,713)
June (taken July 1): 89.2% (801,631 of 898,735)
May (taken June 1): 89.4% (799,845 of 895,091)
April (taken May 1): 89.2% (769,798 of 862,970)
March (taken April 1): 88.9% (739,192 of 831,867)
February (taken March 1): 92.4% (752,043 of 814,009)
January (taken February 1): 88.9% (692,840 of 779,683)
December (taken January 1): 88.8% (663,315 of 746,963)
November (taken December 1): 88.8% (639,676 of 720,179)
October: (taken November 1): 88.8% (617,133 of 695,278)
September (taken October 1): 93.0% (589,877 of 634,375)
August: 88.2% (565,260 of 640,936)
July: 87.7% (522,046 of 595,370)
June: 87.1% (479,793 of 563,436)
May: 86.8% (462,359 of 532,646)
April: 84.8% (377,624 of 445,421)
March: 83.9% (413,302 of 346,665)
February: 84.2% (328,597 of 390,178)
January: 83.4% (295,634 of 354,499)
December: 83.1% (283,497 of 341,112)
November: 82.8% (268,366 of 324,230)
October: 82.2% (252,511 of 307,241)
September: 82.0% (239,666 of 292318)
August: 83.2% (245,524 of 295,210)

Percentage of books with a publication date of the previous month priced from one penny to $50 that are under ten dollars

Books for February 2016: 95.4% (112,307 of 117,729)
Books for January, 2016: 94.2% (87,774 of 93,160)
Books for December, 2016: 94.9% (96,092 of 101,225)
Books for November, 2015: 92.6% (79,061 of 85,397)
Books for October, 2015: 92.2% (76,789 of 83,244)
Books for September, 2015: 92.7% (78,419 of 84,314)
Books for August, 2015: 94.2% (83,159 of 88,243)
Books for July, 2015: 94.3% (81,843 of 86,827)
Books for June, 2015: 94.0% (80,396 of 85,535)
Books for May, 2015: 93.5% (74,211 of 79,388)
Books for April, 2015: 93.3% (76,455 of 81,914)
Books for March, 2015: 93.6% (85,581 of 91,471)
Books for February, 2015: 94.7% (74,806 of 78,979)
Books for January, 2015: 94.6% (73,166 of 77,329)
Books for December, 2014: 95.1% (72,247 of 77,048)
Books for November, 2014: 93.2% (72,264 of 77,550)
Books for October, 2014: 94.0% (72,051 of 76,646)
Books for September, 2014: 95.0% (77,730 of 81,864)
Books for August, 2014: 95.8% (72,127 of 75,293)
Books for July, 2014: 95.8% (72,543 of 75,750)
Books for June, 2014: 94.4% (63,104 of 66,856)
Books for May, 2014: 81.4% (3,177 of 3,905)  | 2nd run to account for Amazon possibly glitching: 94.7% (65,080 of 68,713)
Books for April, 2014: 93.9% (64,320 of 68,534)
Books for March, 2014: 95.1% (64,614 of 67,969)
Books for February, 2014: 94.9% (60,313 of 63,555)
Books for January, 2014: 95.9% (95,399 of 99,439)
Books for December, 2013: 96.4% (105,488 of 109,437)
Books for November: 95.6% (95,064 of 99,468)
Books for October: 91.8% (58,291 of 63,498)
Books for September: 92.6% (55,613 of 60,082)
Books for August: 94.5% (55,159 of 58,358)
Books for July: 93.7% (55,648 of 59,365)
Books for June: 93.6% (52,745 of 56,323)
Books for May: 92.3% (51,237 of 55,482)
Books for April: 93.3% (53,929 of 57,818)
Books for March: 94.5% (53,632 of 56,758)
Books for February: 94.0% (48,876 of 52,015)
Books for January: 93.8% (50,100 of 53,418)
Books for December: 95.7% (49,147 of 51,337)
Books for November:  93.3% (47,702 of 51,103)
Books for October: 93.5% (48,869 of 52,243)
Books for September: 95.0% (52,571 of 49,491)
Books for August: 94.9% (45,180 of 47,593)
Books for July: 95.2% (46,712 of 49,072)
Books for June: 90.8% (50,056 of 55,143)
Books for May: 93.8% (44,463 of 47,396)
Books for April: 96.6% (45,211 of 46,800)
Books for March: 95.6% (48,578 of 50,788)
Books for February: 97.1% (51,180 of 52,734)
Books for January 2012: 96.9% (49,134 of 50,703)
Books for December: 96.8% (46,619 or 48,151)
Books for November: 96.0% (41,067 of 42,678)
Books for October: 96.2% (37,305 of 38,792)
Books for September 96.1% (33,889 of 35,254)
Books for August: 95.8% (37,440 of 39,100)
Books for July: 96.7% (42,922 of 44,400)
Books for June: 96.4% (45,332 of 47,018)
Books for May: 96.9% (51,840 of 53,484)
Books for April: 96.2% (42,795 of 44,464)
Books for March: 96.1% (38,961 of 40,558)
Books for February: 94.7% (32,379 of 34,206)
Books for January: 95.9% (29,010 of 30,260)
Books for December, 2010: 95.2% (23,419 of 24,593)
Books for November: 96.4% (28,189 of 29.251)
Books for October: 94.6% (22,005 of 23,268)
Books for September: 94.7% (22,338 of 23,592)
Books for August: 95.6% (24,514 of 25,638)
Books for July: 95.3% (24,375 of 25,579)
Books for June: 94.9% (21,774 of 22,945)
Books for May: 94.9% (24,436 of 25,737)
Books for April: 95.9% (23,695 of 24,714)
Books for March: 96.0% (23,703 of 24,699)
Books for February: 96.5% (26,850 of 27,815)
Books for January: 93.3% (11,857 of 12,704)
Books for December: 90.6% (8,948 of 9,879)
Books for November: 94.1% (11,520 of 12,239)
Books for October: 91.2% (6,789 of 7,445)
Books for September: 91.0% (5,104 of 5,608)
Books for August: 96.4% (20,239 of 21,079)

Books in the Seventy Percent Royalty Range ($2.99 – $9.99)

March 1, 2016: 60.8% (2,647,699 of 4,356,852)
February 1, 2016: 60.7% (2,587,810 of 4,20,301)
January 1, 2016: 60.2% (2,507,452 of 4,168,071)
December 1, 2015: 60.5% (2,447,446 of 4,046,825)
November 1, 2015: 60.5% (2,398,461 of 3,961,896)
October 1, 2015: 60.3% (2,338,287 of 3,75,694)
September 1, 2015: 60.7% (2,306,295 of 3,799,099)
August 1, 2015: 60.6% (2,251,364 of 3,714,509)
July 1, 2015: 60.4% (2,195,452 of 3,636,269)
June 1, 2015: 60.5% (2,134,639 of 3,530,378)
May 1, 2015: 60.4% (2,088,376 of 3,457,009)
April 1, 2015: 64.1% (2,164,454 of 3,378,436)
March 1, 2015: 64.2% (2,111,025 of 3,288,124)
February 1, 2015: 64.3% (2,043,564 of 3,178,962)
January 1, 2015: 64.2% (1,992,162 of 3,104,677)
December 1, 2014: 64.2% (1,943,782 of 3,027,234)
November 1, 2014: 64.6% (1,909,982 of 2,958,430)
October 1, 2014: 64.3% (1,857,411 of 2,888,225)
September 1, 2014: 63.9% (1,778,889 of 2,801,221)
August 1, 2014: 63.6% (1,731,841 of 2,724,012)
July 1, 2014: 63.4% (1,684,876 of 2,655,727)
June 1, 2014: 8.7% (225,848 of 2,597,747) | second run to account for Amazon possibly glitching 63.4% (1,647,127 of 2,597,112)
May 1, 2014: 63.8% (1,644,029 of 2,576,453)
April 1, 2014: 63.9% (1,605,139 of 2,512,520)
March 1, 2014: 64.1% (1,577,451 of 2,462,832)
February 1, 2014: 64.2% (1,548,131 of 2,411,705)
January 1, 2014: 64.5% (1,516,854 of 2,351,290)
December 1, 2013: 64.5% (1,474,801 of 2,287,866)
November 1, 2013: 64.5% (1,438,413 of 2,229,223)
October 1, 2013: 64.6% (1,405,220 of 2,175,847)
September 1, 2013: 64.5% (1,342,522 of 2,081,800)
August 1, 2013: 64.4% (1,327,280 of 2,060,431)
July 1, 2013: 64.5% (1,288,838 of 1,998,705)
June 1, 2013: 65.0% (1,282,211 of  1,972,277)
May 1, 2013: 65.0% (1,261,991 of 1,940,274)
April 1, 2013: 65.7% (1,264,685 of 1,924,138)
March 1, 2013: 66.2% (1,265,680 of 1,913,164)
February 1, 2013: 67.4% (1,247,401 of 1,849,479)
January 1, 2013: 67.8% (1,224,368 of 1,805,001)
December 1, 2012: 67.9% (1,183,346 of 1,742,991)
November 1, 2012: 64.7% (1,061,871 of 1,641,362)
October 1, 2012: 61.4% (969,791 of 1,579,329)
September 1, 2012: 60.4% (924,771 of 1,531,069)
August 1, 2012: 59.4% (883,612 of 1,486,649)
July 1: 61.3% (890,148 of 1,451,504)
June 1:  62.1% (874,145 of 1,407,210)
May 1: 62.6% (850,030 of  1,358,922)
April 1: 66.8% (812,423 of 1,215,625)
March 1: 61.1% (773,783 of 1,265,632)
February 1: 60.5% (731,051 of 1,207,522)
January 1, 2012: 61.6% (718,191 of 1,165,654)
December 1: 62.5% (694,766 of 1,112,876)
November 1: 61.8% (653,971 of 1,058,635)
October 1: 64.6% (667,521 of 1,033,611)
September 1: 65.8% (654,521 of 995,265)
August 1: 66.8% (677,646 of 1,015,056)
July 1: 63.5% (622,648 of 980,434)
June 1: 65.8% (641,867 of 974,841)
May 1: 67.4% (631,871 of 937,831)
April 1: 67.5% (606,223 of 897,663)
March 1: 68.2% (592,077 of 868,351)
February 1: 67.7% (561,035 of 828,708)
January 1: 66.8% (532,092 of 796,131)
December 1, 2010: 66.9% (514,086 of 768,865)
November 1: 66.7% (493,644 of 743,692)
October 1: 68.2% (487,833 of 714,863)
September 1:  66% (453,408 of 687,246)
August 1: 58% (382,691 of 659,479)
July 1: 57.3% (359,361 of 627,343)
June 1: 57.1% (340,379 of 596,300)
May 1: 51.4% (261,869 of 509,229)
April 1: 51.1% (243,718 of 476,653)
March 1: 52.5% (236,418 of 450,625)
February 1: 50.8% (210,978 of 415,100)

Books from one penny to $2.98

March 1, 2016: 20.8% (907,912 of 4,356,852)
February 1, 2016: 20.8% (884,290 of 4,260,301)
January 1, 2016: 20.8% (868,268 of 4,168,071)
December 1, 2015: 20.3% (819,885 of 4,046,825)
November 1, 2015: 20.0% (791,777 of 3,961,896)
October 1, 2015: 20.1% (780,371 of 3,875,694)
September 1, 2015: 20.1% (764,280 of 3,799,009)
August 1, 2015: 19.9% (739,684 of 3,714,509)
July 1, 2015: 19.8% (718,584 of 3,636,269)
June 1, 2015: 20.5% (685,609 of 3,350,378)
May 1, 2015: 19.3% (6,671,179 of 3,457,009)
April 1, 2015: 19.5% (657,728 of 3,378,436)
March 1, 2015: 21.3% (699,221 of 3,288,124)
February 1, 2015: 19.0% (603,638 of 3,178,962)
January 1, 2015: 19.1% (591,610 of 3,104,677)
December 1, 2014: 19.1% (579,121 of 3,027,234)
November 1, 2014: 18.8% (556,881 of 2,958,430)
October 1, 2014: 18.9% (545,350 of 2,888,225)
September 1, 2014: 18.9% (529,976 of 2,801,221)
August 1, 2014: 18.9% (513,541 of 2,724,012)
July 1, 2014: 18.8% (499,756 of 2,655,727)
June 1, 2014: 2.7% (70,679 of 2,596,747) | second run to account for Amazon possibly glitching: 18.7% (485,799 of 2,597,112)
May 1, 2014: 18.4% (474,202 of 2,576,453
April 1, 2014: 18.4% (461,344 of 2,512,520)
March 1, 2014: 18.1% (446,248 of 2,462,382)
February 1, 2014: 18.2% (439,217 of 2,411,705)
January 1, 2014: 18.1% (426,107 of 2,351,290)
December 1, 2013: 18.0% (410,936 of 2,287,866)
November 1, 2013: 17.8% (395,739 of 2,229,223)
October 1, 2013: 17.6% (381,972 of 2,175,847)
September 1, 2013: 17.9% (372,207 of 2,081,800)
August 1, 2013: 17.5% (361,079 of 2,060,431)
July 1, 2013: 17.3% (346,301 of 1,998,705)
June 1, 2013: 16.8% (330,723 of 1,972,277)
May 1, 2013: 16.9% (326,947 of 1,940,274)
April 1, 2013: 16.4% (315,280 of 1,924,138)
March 1, 2013: 15.9% (304,800 of 1,913,164)
February 1, 2013: 15.8% (293,041 of 1,849,479)
January 1, 2013: 15.7% (283,545 of 1,805,001)
December 1, 2012: 15.5% (270,520 of 1,742,991)
November 1, 2012: 19.2% (315,137 of 1,641,362)
October 1, 2012: 22.7% (358,015 of 1,579,329)
September 1, 2012: 23.5% (359,257 of 1,531,069)
August 1, 2012: 24.3% (361,675 of 1,486,649)
July 1: 22.0% (319,951 of 1,451,504)
June 1:  21.7% (305,794 of 1,407,210)
May 1: 21.3% (288,796 of  1,368,922)
April 1: 23.2% (282,254 of 1,215,625)
March 1: 21.8% (275,556 of 1,265,632)
February 1: 22.2% (268,203 of 1,207,522)
January 1, 2012: 20.7% (241,553 of 1,165,654)
December 1: 19.5% (217,026 of 1,112,876)
November 1: 19.8% (209,435 of 1,058,635)
October 1: 16.7% (172,745 of 1,033,611)
September 1: 15.5% (153,891 of 995,265)
August 1: 15.6% (158,010 of 1,015,056)
July 1: 18.9% (185,041 of 980,434)
June 1: 17.0% (165,687 of 974,841)
May 1: 15.6% (146,540 of 937,831)
April 1: 16.2% (145,638 of 897,863)
March 1: 16.9% (147,076 of 868,351)
February 1: 18.1% (149,809 of 828,708)
January 1: 18.7% (148,681 of 796,131)
December 1, 2010: 18.5%  (142,549 of 768,865)
November 1: 18.4% (136,964 of 743,692)
October 1: 17.9% (127,830 of 714,863)
September 1: 18.5% (127,165 of 687,246)
August 1: 21.1% (139,277 of 659,479)
July 1: 21% (131,432 of 627,343)
June 1: 20.5% (121,981 of 596,300)
May 1: 22.7% (115,756 of 509,229)
April 1: 21.6% (102,948 of 476,653)
March 1: 20.5% (92,180 of 450,625)
February 1: 20.4% (84,721 of 415,100)

Price Point Analysis of New York Times Hardback Fiction Equivalents

March 1, 2016

12.99 13.99 12.99 9.99 13.99 14.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99
13.99 12.99 13.99 10.99 14.99 14.99 12.99 13.99 14.99 13.99

Average: $13.44 (+0.17) 1 titles under $10

February 1, 2016

12.99 13.99 12.99 13.99 13.99 9.99 12.99 N/A 12.99 12.99
12.99 13.99 14.99 12.99 12.99 14.99 N/A 12.99 11.99 13.99

Average: $13.27 (-.52) 1 title under $10

January 1, 2016

12.99 13.99 12.99 14.99 14.99 11.99 12.99 14.99 12.99 14.99
9.99 13.99 13.99 14.99 13.99 14.99 14.99 12.99 14.99 12.99

Average: $13.79 (+.70) 1 title under $10

December 1, 2015

13.99 14.99 12.99 14.99 12.99 14.99 13.99 14.99 10.99 12.99
13.99 9.99 11.99 13.99 4.99 14.99 11.99 13.99 14.99 12.99

Average: $13.09 (-.50) 2 titles under $10

November 1, 2015

12.99 14.99 14.99 14.99 14.99 13.99 13.99 12.99 11.99 14.99
13.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 14.99 9.99 12.99 13.99 12.99

Average: $13.59 (+.03) 1 title under $10

October 1, 2015

14.99 13.99 13.99 14.99 13.99 7.99 12.99 14.99 12.99 13.99
12.99 9.45 12.99 14.99 13.99 13.99 13.99 13.99 13.99 14.99

Average: $13.56 (+$0.72) 2 titles under $10

September 1, 2015

13.99 7.99 13.99 12.99 14.99 14.99 13.99 12.99 12.99 8.99
11.99 12.99 14.99 12.99 14.99 9.99 12.99 12.99 11.99 12.99

Average: $12.84 (+$1.33) 3 titles under $10

August 1, 2015

13.99 6.99 13.99 9.99 14.99 9.99 10.99 8.99 8.99 11.43
9.99 11.99 14.99 10.99 10.99 10.99 12.99 10.99 12.99 12.99

Average; $11.51 (-$0.62) 6 titles under $10

July 1, 2015

13.99 6.99 8.99 14.99 10.99 11.99 8.99 9.99 12.99 16.99
11.84 12.99 13.99 11.99 9.99 14.99 14.99 10.99 12.99 10.99

Average: $12.13 (+$0.16) 5 titles under $10

June 1, 2015

6.99 13.99 16.99 9.99 9.99 12.99 10.99 8.99 12.99 12.99
11.43 11.99 12.99 12.99 9.99 12.99 11.84 12.31 14.99 10.99

Average: $11.97 (+$1.69) 5 titles under $10

May 1, 2015

6.99 12.31 8.99 8.99 8.97 8.99 12.99 11.84 10.99 11.84
12.99 6.99 11.84 9.99 12.99 12.99 5.99 9.10 12.99 6.86

Average: $10.28 (-$1.40) 10 titles under $10

April 1, 2015

6.99 12.99 9.99 13.59 10.99 10.99 10.99 12.99 11.99 10.99
12.99 12.99 11.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 9.99 9.19 11.99

Average: $11.68 (+$0.57) 4 titles under $10

March 1, 2015

8.99 11.99 10.49 10.99 12.99 14.99 9.99 9.99 9.99 11.99
12.99 11.99 9.79 11.99 11.99 10.99 9.99 10.99 5.99 12.99

Average: $11.11 (+$1.34) 7 titles under $10

February 1, 2015

8.99 11.99 9.79 12.99 9.79 9.99 11.99 7.99 9.99 3.99
12.99 11.99 8.99 5.99 3.99 10.99 6.99 10.99 12.99 11.99

Average: $9.77 (+$0.11) 11 titles under $10

January 1, 2015

9.99 7.69 9.99 7.19 10.99 11.99 10.99 3.99 11.99 7.49
10.99 11.89 6.99 10.99 9.99 10.99 10.99 5.99 10.99 10.99

Average: $9.66 (+$0.09) 9 titles under $10

December 1, 2014

10.99 12.74 3.25 9.78 4.99 10.99 12.99 6.99 11.84 10.99
10.99 5.00 9.99 9.78 9.09 10.99 10.99 10.99 6.99 10.99

Average: $9.57 (-$0.65) 9 titles under $10

November 1, 2014

10.99 9.99 11.99 6.50 10.99 10.99 6.99 10.99 10.99 10.99
10.99 6.99 10.99 10.99 10.99 11.99 10.99 10.99 7.99 9.99

Average: $10.22 (-$0.86) 6 titles under $10

October 1, 2014

10.99 10.99 11.99 10.99 12.99 10.99 11.99 12.74 11.99 9.99
10.99 10.99 8.99 6.99 10.99 11.99 10.99 12.99 7.99 12.99

Average: $11.08 (-$0.43) 4 titles under $10

September 1, 2014

9.99 10.99 13.99 10.99 6.99 13.99 10.99 10.99 12.99 11.99
10.99 14.99 11.84 11.99 9.99 11.84 8.99 11.99 12.74 10.99

Average: $11.51 (+$0.56) 4 titles under $10

August 1, 2014

8.99 8.99 10.99 11.99 11.84 6.99 11.99 10.99 10.99 10.99
10.99 8.52 12.99 14.99 10.99 N/A 12.74 10.99 10.99 9.99

Average: $10.95 (+$0.30) 5 titles under $10

July 1, 2014

11.84 8.99 11.99 11.99 10.99 6.99 11.99 11.84 12.99 10.49
10.99 7.99 11.99 10.99 7.99 11.99 5.99 11.84 12.99 9.99

Average: $10.64 (+$0.22) 6 titles under $10

June 1, 2014

8.99 7.50 8.99 8.99 12.99 10.99 10.99 9.99 10.99 14.44
10.99 10.99 9.99 11.84 10.99 8.99 11.84 10.99 5.99 10.99

Average: $10.42 (-$0.16) 8 titles under $10

May 1, 2014

10.99 11.04 10.99 7.50 8.99 10.99 10.99 10.99 12.99 12.99
11.04 5.99 10.99 9.10 12.99 8.55 10.99 13.99 9.99 9.45

Average: $10.58 (-$0.27) 7 titles under $10

April 1, 2014

11.84 10.99 12.74 10.99 10.99 7.50 10.99 11.99 11.99 11.47
10.99 10.65 6.49 10.99 10.99 11.99 12.99 5.99 15.49 8.99

Average: $10.85 (+$0.59) 3 titles under $10

March 1, 2014

11.99 11.99 7.50 10.91 12.74 10.65 10.65 11.48 6.49 11.47
9.99 8.99 11.99 8.49 12.99 N/A 5.99 10.99 8.99 10.66

Average: $10.26 (+$1.33) 7 titles under $10

February 1, 2014

10.91 7.50 10.65 10.65 6.59 10.65 11.19 8.49 10.91 10.65
5.99 8.99 7.50 11.39 7.50 8.99 10.65 6.49 6.49 6.49

Average: $8.93 (+$0.99) 11 titles under $10

January 1, 2014

6.49 8.49 7.50 6.06 7.99 7.50 6.49 6.49 6.49 8.99
11.39 6.49 6.49 N/A 8.59 8.99 11.39 6.49 11.49 6.99

Average: $7.94 (-$1.06) 16 titles under $10

December 1, 2013:

8.49 3.29 10.99 10.65 7.99 7.49 11.99 3.99 10.99 10.99

N/A 10.99 8.99 7.99 8.59 10.91 10.65 10.99 3.99 11.99

Average: $9.00 ($-1.48) 9 titles under $10

November 1, 2013:

10.99 10.91 10.91 11.99 10.91 10.99 10.99 11.99 10.99 6.50

10.91 10.91 10.91 10.65 9.99 10.99 10.99 9.01 9.99 7.99

Average: $10.48

October 1, 2013:

10.99 10.99 10.99 10.99 10.99 10.99 9.99 9.45 5.99 10.99

10.99 10.99 10.99 10.99 10.99 5.99 9.99 12.8010.99 10.99

Average: $10.40

September 4, 2013:

6.50 10.99 11.99 10.99 11.04 10.99 4.99 10.99 10.99 6.50
9.00 8.00 11.99 10.99 7.48 10.67 11.99 11.99 10.99 12.60

Average: $10.08

August 1, 2013:

11.99 12.99 9.99 12.99 11.99 10.99 9.99 12.99 9.99 9.99

12.99 12.99 11.04 12.99 8.52 12.99 14.99 10.91 11.04 11.84

Average: $11.71

July 1, 2013:

7.99 12.99 11.04 12.99 12.99 11.04 11.04 7.99 11.04 11.04

12.99 12.99 7.99 7.49 11.04 14.99 7.49 12.99 10.99 12.74

Average: $11.09

June 1, 2013:

12.99 12.99 12.99 11.99 8.99 12.99 13.99 12.99 12.99 9.00

14.99 12.99 9.99 9.99 10.99 14.99 10.99 12.80 9.68 12.99

Average: $12.12

May 1, 2013:

12.99 10.99 12.74 12.99 7.99 12.99 10.99 12.99 12.99 12.99
12.99 14.99 12.99 12.99 10.99 10.99 12.99 7.49 14.99 12.59

Average: $12.23

April 1, 2013:

12.74 12.99 11.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 9.45
11.99 14.99 14.99 9.68 12.99 12.99 12.99 9.78 11.04 10.67

Average: $12.36

March 1, 2013:

12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 N/A 10.99 12.99 12.99 11.99 12.99
12.74 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 14.99

Average: $12.92

February 1, 2013:

N/A 12.99 12.74 12.99 9.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 11.04 12.99

9.99 8.00 12.99 11.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 14.99 12.99 13.59

Average: $12.38

January 1, 2013:

12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 11.04 11.04 12.74 11.43 12.74 12.99

11.99 9.99 12.99 7.50 12.99 8.00 19.99 13.49 13.99 14.99

Average: 12.49

December 1, 2012:

12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 14.99 12.99 12.99 11.99

12.99 12.99 19.99 9.50 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99

Average: $13.22

November 1, 2012:

12.99 12.99 14.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 19.99 12.99 9.50 12.99

11.99 12.99 12.99 11.99 12.99 13.99 14.99 12.80 11.99 12.99

Average: $13.26

October 1, 2012:

19.99 12.99 12.99 9.50 12.99 12.99 9.99 12.99 12.99 12.99

12.99 12.99 14.99 12.99 11.99 9.45 12.99 11.99 12.99 12.99

Average: $12.84

September 1, 2012:

12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 11.99 14.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99

12.99 12.99 12.99 11.99 12.99 12.99 9.99 14.99 12.99 14.99 1.99

Average: $12.49

August 1, 2012:

12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 14.99 12.99 12.99

12.99 12.99 12.99 11.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99

Average: $13.04

July 1, 2012:

12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99

12.99 14.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 14.99 14.99 12.99 12.99

Average: 13.29

June 1, 2012:

12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 11.99

12.99 9.99 14.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 11.99 12.99 14.99

Average: $12.94

May 1, 2012:

12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99

12.99 12.99 12.99 14.99 11.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99

Average: $13.04

April 1, 2012:

12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99

14.99* 12.99 12.99 12.99 14.99 11.9912.99 12.99 12.99 12.99

Average: $13.14

March 1, 2012:

12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 14.99* 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99

9.99 12.99 14.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99

$13.04

February 1, 2012:

12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 14.99* 12.99 9.99 12.99 12.99

12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 12.99 14.99 12.99 12.99 12.99

Average: $13.04

* There was also an enhanced audio/visual version of this book for $16.99. I chose to enter it here only in the standard version, since that most closely represents the comparison between paper and e-book versions. It isn’t necessary to pay $16.99: it’s an additional payment for more features

January 1, 2012

Average: $13.14

December 1, 2011

Average: $12.40

November 1, 2011:

Average: $12.45

October 1, 2011:

Avg: $13.09

September 1, 2011:

Avg: 12.99

August 1, 2011:

Avg $13.29

July 1, 2011

Avg $13.09

June 1, 2011

Avg: $12.81

May 1, 2011

Average: $12.84

April 1, 2011

Average: $12.69

March 1, 2011

Average: $12.83

February 1, 2011

Average: $12.25
Agency Model average: $12.86
Non-Agency Model average: $9.99

January 1, 2011

Average: $12.52

Agency Model: $12.99

Non-Agency: $9.99

December 1, 2010:

Average: $12.78
Agency Model average: $13.52
Non-Agency Model average: $9.99

November 1, 2010:

Average: $12.83
Agency Model average: $13.59
Non-Agency Model average: $9.99

October 1, 2010:

Average: $12.38
Agency Model average: $12.79
Non-Agency Model average: $10.87

September 1, 2010:

Average: $12.52
Agency Model average $12.99
Non-Agency Model average $9.99

Textbooks in the Kindle Store

March 1, 2016: 61,532
February 1, 2016: 60,985
January 1, 2016: 59,826
December 1, 2015: 59,953
November 1, 2015: 58,582
October 1, 2015: 58,203
September 1, 2015: 48,650
August 1, 2015: 48,063
July 1, 2015: 47,977
June 1, 2015: 47,388
May 1, 2015: 46,799
April 1, 2015: 46,482
March 1, 2015: 46,145
February 1, 2015: 46,265
January 1, 2015: 45,345
December 1, 2014: 44,787
November 1, 2014: 44,250
October 1, 2014: 43,910
September 1, 2014: 43,385
August 1, 2014: 42,643
July 1, 2014: 42,114
June 1, 2014: 40,810
May 1, 2014: 39,687
April 1, 2014: 38,577
March 1, 2014: 37,212
February 1, 2014: 36,397
January 1, 2014: 35,793
December 1, 2013: 35,213
November 1, 2013: 35,273
October 1, 2013: 34,585
September 1, 2013:  30,925
August 1, 2013: 29,956
July 1, 2013: 29,070
June 1, 2013: 28,194
May 1, 2013: 27,110
April 1, 2013: 26,35
March 1, 2013: 26,100
February 1, 2013: 25,000
January 1, 2013: 23,256
December 1, 2012: 21,507
November 1, 2012: 19,796
October 1, 2012: 19,095
September 1, 2012: 18,369
August 1, 2012: 17,756
July 1, 2012: 24,629
June 1, 2012: 15,581
May 1, 2012: 14,868
April 1, 2012: 16,509
March 1, 2012: 15,434
February 1, 2012: 14,827
January 1, 2012: 13,828
December 1, 2011: 13,396
November 1, 2011: 13,131
October 1, 2011: 12,788
September 1, 2011: 11,966
August 1, 2011: 10,316
July 1, 2011: 9,852
June 1, 2011: 9,442
May 1, 2011: 9,193
April 1, 2011:  8,952
March 1, 2011: 8,633
February 1, 2011: 8,342
January 1, 2011: 7,926
December 1, 2010: 7,637
November 1, 2010: 7,355
October 1, 2010: 7, 162
September 1, 2010: 6,831
August 1, 2010: 6,661
July 1, 2010: 6,481
June 1, 2010: 6,249
May 1, 2010: 6,117
April 1, 2010: 5,973
March 1, 2010: 5,728
February 1, 2010: 5,673
January 1, 2010: 5,549
December 1, 2009: 4,892
November 1, 2009: 4,768
October 1, 2009: 4,633
September 24, 2009: 4,678
August 11, 2009: 4,381

Free books (including public domain)

March 1, 2016: 84,422
February 1, 2016: 82,583 (-0%)
January 1, 2016: 82,656 (+2%)
December 1, 2015: 81,264 (+1%)
November 1, 2015: 80,629 (+1%)
October 1, 2015: 79,676 (+2%)
September 1, 2015: 77,976 (-1%)
August 1, 2015: 78,922 (+1%)
July 1, 2015: 77,735 (+1%)
June 1, 2015: 76,688 (-1%)
May 1, 2015: 77,248 (+3%)
April 1, 2015: 74,974 (-0%)
March 1, 2015: 75,030 (+2%)
February 1, 2015: 73,489 (+0%)
January 1, 2015: 73,041 (+13%)
December 1, 2014: 64,805
November 1, 2014: 63,897
October 1, 2014: 61,828
September 1, 2014: 61,787
August 1, 2014: 61,381
July 1, 2014: 60,103
June 1, 2014: 59,848
May 1, 2014: 59,957
April 1, 2014: 57,945
March 1, 2014: 58,588
February 1, 2014: 57,648
January 1, 2014: 56,793
December 1, 2013: 57,311
November 1, 2013: 58,238
October 1, 2013: 56,199
September 1, 2013: 57,547
August 1, 2013: 56,113
July 1, 2013: 55,068
June 1, 2013: 55,811
May 1, 2013: 54,033
April 1, 2013: 55,670
March 1, 2013: 54,946
February 1, 2013: 54,567
January 1, 2013: 54,538
December 1, 2012: 50,869
November 1, 2012: 50,938
October 1, 2012: 50,982
September 1, 2012: 52,601
August 1, 2012: 51,680
July 1: 53,728
June 1: 50,470
May 1: 48,904
April 1: 49,826
March 1: 51,860
February 1: 48,207
January 1, 2012: 46,201
December 1: 43,757
November 1: 42,657
October 1, 2011: 42,710
September 1, 2011: 39,540
August 1, 2011: 38,936
July 1, 2011: 38,627
June 1, 2011: 37,415
May 1, 2011: 36,481
April 1, 2011: 33,469
March 1, 2011: 15,931
February 1, 2011: 15,947
January 1, 2011: 16,758
December 1, 2010: 16,708
November 1, 2010: 16,703
October 1, 2010: 16,702
September 1, 2010: 16,726
August 1, 2010: 20,634
July 1, 2010: 20,628
June 1, 2010: 20,590
May 1, 2010: 20,601
April 1, 2010: 20,619
March 1, 2010: 20,143
February 1, 2010: 19788
January 1, 2010: 19,802
December 1, 2009: 19,895
November 1, 2009: 18,547
October 1, 2009: 7,428
February 28, 2009: 7,401

Free books (without public domain)

March 1, 2016: 41,277
February 1, 2016: 38,516 (-0%)
January 1, 2016: 38,550 (+4%)
December 1, 2015: 37,191 (+55%)
November 1, 2015: 23,872 (+2%)
October 1, 2015: 23,307 (+8%)
September 1, 2015: 21,575 (-3%)
August 1, 2015: 22,154 (+3%)
July 1, 2015: 21,572 (+4%)
June 1, 2015: 20,740 (-3%)
May 1, 2015: 21,362 (+9%)
April 1, 2015: 19,508 (+1%)
March 1, 2015: 19,232 (+4%)
February 1, 2015: 18,489 (+3%)
January 1, 2015: 17,983 (+5%)
December 1, 2014: 17,160
November 1, 2014: 16,735
October 1, 2014: 15,099
September 1, 2014: 15,190
August 1, 2014: 14,717
July 1, 2014: 13,300
June 1, 2014: 12,490
May 1, 2014: 13,191
April 1, 2014: 11,864
March 1, 2014: 12,500
February 1, 2014: 11,568
January 1, 2014: 11,091
December 1, 2013: 11,455
November 1, 2013: 11,262
October 1, 2013: 9,726
September 1, 2013: 10,794
August 1, 2013: 9,816
July 1, 2013: 8,921
June 1, 2013: 9,582
May 1, 2013: 7,807
April 1, 2013: 7,761
March 1, 2013: 7,710
February 1, 2013: 7,404
January 1, 2013: 7,261
December 1, 2012: 7,089
November 1, 2012: 7,186
October 1, 2012: 7,259
September 1, 2012: 8,701
August 1, 2012: 7,829
July 1, 2012: 9,660
June 1, 2012: 6,715
May 1, 2012: 5,195
April 1, 2012: 5,622
March 1, 2012: 8,356
February 1, 2012: 6,109
January 1, 2012: 4,102
December 1, 2011: 2,007
November 1, 2011: 1,681
October 1, 2011: 1,449
September 1, 2011: 1,283
August 1, 2011: 1,046
July 1, 2011: 883
June 1, 2011: 707
May 1, 2011: 20,984
April 1, 2011: 17,832
March 1, 2011: 241
February 1, 2011: 240
January 1, 2011: 230
December 1, 2010: 183
November 1, 2010: 171
October 1, 2010: 161
September 1, 2010: 143
August 1, 2010: 621 (125 without Amazon Breakthrough nominees)
July 1, 2010: 599 (102 without Amazon Breakthrough nominees)
June 1, 2010: 559 (63 without Amazon Breakthrough nominees)
May 1, 2010: 556 (57 without Amazon Breakthrough nominees)
April 1, 2010: 560 (59 without Amazon Breakthrough nominees)
March 1, 2010: 67
February 1, 2010: 52
January 1, 2010: 53
December 1, 2009: 84
November 1, 2009: 64
October 1, 2009: 67

Spanish edition books*

March 1, 2016: 176,351
February 1, 2016: 172,246 (+5%)
January 1, 2016: 168,253 (+3%)
December 1, 2015: 163,218 (+2%)
November 1, 2015: 160,225 (+3%)
October 1, 2015: 156,158 (+2%)
September 1, 2015: 152,538 (+3%)
August 1, 2015: 148,388 (+4%)
July 1, 2015: 143,665 (+3%)
June 1, 2015: 139,519 (+2%)
May 1, 2015: 137,022 (+3%)
April 1, 2015: 132,496 (+3%)
March 1, 2015: 128,918 (+3%)
February 1, 2015: 125,505 (+2%)
January 1, 2015: 123,171 (+3%)
December 1, 2014: 119,963
November 1, 2014: 116,680
October 1, 2014: 113,491
September 1, 2014: 109,395
August 1, 2014: 101,643
July 1, 2014: 98,048
June 1, 2014: 95,632
May 1, 2014: 92,954
April 1, 2014: 90,187
March 1, 2014: 87,752
February 1, 2014: 86,182
January 1, 2014: 83,041
December 1, 2013: 80,061
November 1, 2013: 77,688
October 1, 2013: 76,079
September 1, 2013: 73,649
August 1, 2013: 71,335
July 1, 2013: 68,643
June 1, 2013: 66,070
May 1, 2013: 63,842
April 1, 2013: 61,264
March 1, 2013: 54,839
February 1, 2013: 52,638
January 1, 2013: 51,302
December 1, 2012: 48,905
November 1, 2012: 46,790
October 1, 2012: 44,232
September 1, 2012: 41,659
August 1, 2012: 40,214
July 1, 2012: 38,684
June 1, 2012: 36,891
May 1, 2012: 34,308
April 1, 2012: 32,157
March 1, 2012: 29,480
February 1, 2012: 22,834
January 1, 2012: 22,492
December 1, 2011: 19,928
November 1, 2011: 15,758
October 1, 2011: 16,874
September 1, 2011: 14,805
August 1, 2011: 11,383
July 1, 2011: 10,552
June 1, 2011: 9,917
May 1, 2011: 9,251
April 1, 2011: 8,362
March 1, 2011: 9,244
February 1, 2011: 8,608
January 1, 2011: 8.045
December 1, 2010: 5,839
November 1, 2010: 5,286
October 1, 2010: 4,982
September 1, 2010: 4,723
August 1, 2010: 4,623
July 1, 2010: 4,398
June 1, 2010: 4,078
May 1, 2010: 3,735
April 1, 2010: 3,383
March 1, 2010: 2,841
February 1, 2010: 2,548
January 1, 2010: 2,363
December 1, 2009: 3,483

Books in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library (KOLL)

March 1, 2016: 1,250,894
February 1, 2016: 1,199,281 (26%)
January 1, 2016: 1,168,736 (28.0%)
December 1, 2015: 1,132,942 (28.0%)
November 1, 2015: 1,109,339 (28.0%)
October 1, 2015: 1,084,779 (27.9%)
September 1, 2015: 1,057,291 (27.9%)
August 1, 2015: 1,022,270 (27.5%)
July 1, 2015: 995,047 (27.4%)
June 1, 2015: 957,481 (27.1%)
May 1, 2015: 920,564 (26.6%)
April 1, 2015: 890,629 (24.3%)
March 1, 2015: 853,036 (25.9%)
February 1, 2015: 823,258 (25.9%)
January 1, 2015: 794,093 (25.6%)
December 1, 2014: 764,249 (25.2%)
November 1, 2014: 724,218 (25.1%)
October 1, 2014: 710,979 (24.6%)
September 1, 2014: 673,206 (24.0%)
August 1, 2014: 638,545 (23.4%)
July 1, 2014: 604,950 (22.8%)
June 1, 2014: 586,812 (22.6%)
May 1, 2014: 566,893 (22.0%)
April 1, 2014: 547,360 (21.8%)
March 1, 2014: 529,466 (21.5%)
February 1, 2014: 512,403 (21.2%)
January 1, 2014: 491,875 (20.91%)
December 1, 2013: 469,593 (20.53%)
November 1, 2013: 447,147 (20.06%)
October 1, 2013: 428,318 (19.7%)
September 1, 2013: 408,514 (19.8%)
August 1, 2013: 389,380 (18.9%)
July 1, 2013: 369,622 (18.5%)
June 1, 2013: 352,649 (17.1%)
May 1, 2013: 336,351 (17.3%)
April 1, 2013: 319,676 (16.6%)
March 1, 2013: 302,080 (15.8%)
February 1, 2013: 283,641 (15.3%)
January 1, 2013: 264,444
December 1, 2012: 242,716
November 1, 2012: 235,957
October 1, 2012: 216,873
September 1, 2012: 198,009
August 1, 2012: 180,133
July 1, 2012: 168,440
June 1, 2012: 159,937
May 1, 2012: 146,182
April 1, 2012: 131,110
March 1, 2012: 117,652
February 1, 2012: 95,020
January 1, 2012: 69,850 (new measurement)

Books in Kindle Unlimited

March 1, 2016: 1,268,842 (29.1% of total)
February 1, 2016: 1,217,059 (28.5% of total)
January 1, 2016: 1,189,911 (28.5% of total)
December 1, 2015: 1,156,686 (28.6% of total)
November 1, 2015: 1,133,293 (28.6% of total)
October 1, 2015: 1,108,762 +2%) (28.6% of total)
September 1, 2015: 1,084,510 (+3%) (28.5% of total)
August 1, 2015: 1,050,688 (+3%) (28.3% of total)
July 1, 2015: 1,023,395 (+4%) (28.1% of total)
June 1, 2015: 984,701 (+4%) (27.9% of total)
May 1, 2015: 948,638 (+3%) (27.4% of total)
April 1, 2015: 918,839 (+4%) (27.2% of total)
March 1, 2015: 880,916 (+4%)
February 1, 2015: 850,027 (+4%)
January 1, 2015: 820,865 (+4%)
December 1, 2014: 791,011 (+3%)
November 1, 2014: 765,236 (+4%)
October 1, 2014: 733,167 (+5%)
September 1, 2014: 696,171 (+5%)
August 1, 2014: 661,111 (new measurement)

Books in the Kindle Matchbook program

March 1, 2016: 77,175 (-1%)
February 1, 2016: 77,613 (-0%)
January 1, 2016: 77,877 (-0%)
December 1, 2015: 78,148 (-0%)
November 1, 2015: 78,422 (-0%)
October 1, 2015: 78,677 (-0%)
September 1, 2015: 78,940 (-0%)
August 1, 2015: 79,174 (-1%)
July 1, 2015: 79,656 (-0%)
June 1, 2015: 79,917 (-0%)
May 1, 2015: 80,311 (-0%)
April 1, 2015: 80,594 (-1%)
March 1, 2015: 81,045 (-0%)
February 1, 2015: 81,515 (-0%)
January 1, 2015: 82,228 (-1%)
December 1, 2014: 82,643 (+1%)
November 1, 2014: 81,969 (+81%)
October 1, 2014: 45,267 (-39%)
September 1, 2014: 73,820 (+8%)
August 1, 2014: 68,453 (+1%)
July 1, 2014: 67,466 (-1%)
June 1, 2014: 67,787 (-1%)
May 1, 2014: 68,240 (-16%)
April 1, 2014: 81,560 (-27%)
March 1, 2014: 112,354 (+2%)
February 1, 2014: 109,992 (+8%)
January 1, 2014: 101,699 (+14%)
December 1, 2013: 88,869 (+18%)
November 1, 2013: 75,173 (new measurement)

Price Point Analysis

April 1, 2010 was “Agency Day”, when the pricing system for some of the largest trade publishers in the US changed. I’ve started tracking price points, to see how that is affecting things. These are not ranges: it’s how many books are at a specific price point.

	4/1/2010
Total	476653
Prime	413032
Under $10	346665
	83.9%
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$ 0.99	43,993	9.17%	0.01%
$ 1.99	7,704	1.61%	0.00%
$ 2.99	14,560	3.03%	0.00%
$ 3.99	17,390	3.62%	-0.02%
$ 4.99	9,758	2.03%	-0.01%
$ 5.99	2,691	0.56%	0.00%
$ 6.99	1,800	0.38%	0.00%
$ 7.99	10,927	2.28%	-0.25%
$ 8.99	1,312	0.27%	0.00%
$ 9.99	51,857	10.80%	-0.26%
$ 10.99	191	0.04%	0.00%
$ 11.99	196	0.04%	0.00%
$ 12.99	308	0.06%	0.00%
$ 13.99	93	0.02%	0.00%
$ 14.99	806	0.17%	0.00%
$ 15.99	114	0.02%	0.00%
$ 16.99	67	0.01%	0.00%
$ 17.99	43	0.01%	0.00%
$ 18.99	21	0.00%	0.00%
$ 19.99	201	0.04%	0.00%
$ 20.99	11	0.00%	0.00%
$ 21.99	11	0.00%	0.00%
$ 22.99	21	0.00%	0.00%
$ 23.99	5	0.00%	0.00%
$ 24.99	50	0.01%	0.00%

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4/1/2011
Total	897,663
Prime	831,867
Under $10	739192
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$    0.99	71,036	7.91%	-0.84%
$    1.99	15,994	1.78%	0.06%
$    2.99	50,033	5.57%	0.30%
$    3.99	23,986	2.67%	0.24%
$    4.99	20,374	2.27%	0.48%
$    5.99	10,560	1.18%	0.16%
$    6.99	7,422	0.83%	0.07%
$    7.99	18,354	2.04%	0.20%
$    8.99	4,436	0.49%	-0.04%
$    9.99	96,211	10.72%	0.88%
$   10.99	766	0.09%	0.02%
$   11.99	1,383	0.15%	-0.01%
$   12.99	2,122	0.24%	0.01%
$   13.99	506	0.06%	0.00%
$   14.99	1,519	0.17%	-0.01%
$   15.99	172	0.02%	0.01%
$   16.99	225	0.03%	0.00%
$   17.99	403	0.04%	0.02%
$   18.99	199	0.02%	0.01%
$   19.99	568	0.06%	-0.01%
$   20.99	45	0.01%	0.00%
$   21.99	152	0.02%	0.00%
$   22.99	21	0.00%	0.00%
$   23.99	22	0.00%	0.00%
$   24.99	104	0.01%	-0.04%

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5/1/2011
Total	937,831
Prime	862,970
Under $10	769,798
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	74,929	7.99%	0.08%
$        1.99	16,497	1.76%	-0.02%
$        2.99	56,878	6.06%	0.49%
$        3.99	22,937	2.45%	-0.23%
$        4.99	24,880	2.65%	0.38%
$        5.99	13,387	1.43%	0.25%
$        6.99	5,215	0.56%	-0.27%
$        7.99	18,992	2.03%	-0.02%
$        8.99	5,053	0.54%	0.04%
$        9.99	103,463	11.03%	0.31%
$      10.99	865	0.09%	0.01%
$      11.99	1,412	0.15%	0.00%
$      12.99	2,271	0.24%	0.01%
$      13.99	490	0.05%	0.00%
$      14.99	1,577	0.17%	0.00%
$      15.99	134	0.01%	0.00%
$      16.99	235	0.03%	0.00%
$      17.99	471	0.05%	0.01%
$      18.99	207	0.02%	0.00%
$      19.99	465	0.05%	-0.01%
$      20.99	29	0.00%	0.00%
$      21.99	172	0.02%	0.00%
$      22.99	34	0.00%	0.00%
$      23.99	79	0.01%	0.01%
$      24.99	110	0.01%	0.00%

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6/1/2011
Total	974,841
Prime	895,091
Under $10	799,845
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	81,095	8.32%	0.33%
$        1.99	16,628	1.71%	-0.05%
$        2.99	54,630	5.60%	-0.46%
$        3.99	22,026	2.26%	-0.19%
$        4.99	18,976	1.95%	-0.71%
$        5.99	10,685	1.10%	-0.33%
$        6.99	7,039	0.72%	0.17%
$        7.99	15,841	1.62%	-0.40%
$        8.99	4,226	0.43%	-0.11%
$        9.99	90,005	9.23%	-1.80%
$      10.99	619	0.06%	-0.03%
$      11.99	1,481	0.15%	0.00%
$      12.99	2,112	0.22%	-0.03%
$      13.99	571	0.06%	0.01%
$      14.99	1,720	0.18%	0.01%
$      15.99	176	0.02%	0.00%
$      16.99	230	0.02%	0.00%
$      17.99	251	0.03%	-0.02%
$      18.99	178	0.02%	0.00%
$      19.99	468	0.05%	0.00%
$      20.99	25	0.00%	0.00%
$      21.99	200	0.02%	0.00%
$      22.99	29	0.00%	0.00%
$      23.99	59	0.01%	0.00%
$      24.99	121	0.01%	0.00%

—

July 1, 2011

7/1/2011
Total	980,434
Prime	898,735
Under $10	801,631
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	73,957	7.54%	-0.78%
$        1.99	18,207	1.86%	0.15%
$        2.99	34,414	3.51%	-2.09%
$        3.99	26,942	2.75%	0.49%
$        4.99	8,926	0.91%	-1.04%
$        5.99	5,117	0.52%	-0.57%
$        6.99	3,725	0.38%	-0.34%
$        7.99	14,537	1.48%	-0.14%
$        8.99	2,009	0.20%	-0.23%
$        9.99	79,377	8.10%	-1.14%
$      10.99	491	0.05%	-0.01%
$      11.99	1,574	0.16%	0.01%
$      12.99	1,863	0.19%	-0.03%
$      13.99	509	0.05%	-0.01%
$      14.99	1,555	0.16%	-0.02%
$      15.99	453	0.05%	0.03%
$      16.99	201	0.02%	0.00%
$      17.99	138	0.01%	-0.01%
$      18.99	118	0.01%	-0.01%
$      19.99	271	0.03%	-0.02%
$      20.99	18	0.00%	0.00%
$      21.99	186	0.02%	0.00%
$      22.99	32	0.00%	0.00%
$      23.99	111	0.01%	0.01%
$      24.99	125	0.01%	0.00%

—

August 1, 2011

8/1/2011
Total	1,015,056
Prime	931,713
Under $10	829,823
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$    0.99	76,233	7.51%	-0.03%
$    1.99	17,083	1.68%	-0.17%
$    2.99	66,967	6.60%	3.09%
$    3.99	12,921	1.27%	-1.48%
$    4.99	27,893	2.75%	1.84%
$    5.99	12,894	1.27%	0.75%
$    6.99	2,715	0.27%	-0.11%
$    7.99	18,431	1.82%	0.33%
$    8.99	5,638	0.56%	0.35%
$    9.99	111,705	11.00%	2.91%
$   10.99	473	0.05%	0.00%
$   11.99	1,691	0.17%	0.01%
$   12.99	2,129	0.21%	0.02%
$   13.99	576	0.06%	0.00%
$   14.99	1,768	0.17%	0.02%
$   15.99	252	0.02%	-0.02%
$   16.99	230	0.02%	0.00%
$   17.99	128	0.01%	0.00%
$   18.99	249	0.02%	0.01%
$   19.99	468	0.05%	0.02%
$   20.99	46	0.00%	0.00%
$   21.99	166	0.02%	0.00%
$   22.99	64	0.01%	0.00%
$   23.99	90	0.01%	0.00%
$   24.99	59	0.01%	-0.01%

September 1, 2011

9/1/2011
Total	995,265
Prime	908,602
Under $10	803,271
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$    0.99	77,793	7.82%	0.31%
$    1.99	16,614	1.67%	-0.01%
$    2.99	56,503	5.68%	-0.92%
$    3.99	21,995	2.21%	0.94%
$    4.99	21,595	2.17%	-0.58%
$    5.99	11,312	1.14%	-0.13%
$    6.99	7,477	0.75%	0.48%
$    7.99	16,948	1.70%	-0.11%
$    8.99	14,883	1.50%	0.94%
$    9.99	102,626	10.31%	-0.69%
$   10.99	485	0.05%	0.00%
$   11.99	983	0.10%	-0.07%
$   12.99	1,374	0.14%	-0.07%
$   13.99	316	0.03%	-0.02%
$   14.99	1,501	0.15%	-0.02%
$   15.99	160	0.02%	-0.01%
$   16.99	159	0.02%	-0.01%
$   17.99	285	0.03%	0.02%
$   18.99	165	0.02%	-0.01%
$   19.99	446	0.04%	0.00%
$   20.99	50	0.01%	0.00%
$   21.99	171	0.02%	0.00%
$   22.99	41	0.00%	0.00%
$   23.99	33	0.00%	-0.01%
$   24.99	109	0.01%	0.01%

—

10/1/2011
Total	1,033,611
Prime	943,545
Under $10	835,590
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	81,946	7.93%	0.11%
$        1.99	16,172	1.56%	-0.10%
$        2.99	48,287	4.67%	-1.01%
$        3.99	16,808	1.63%	-0.58%
$        4.99	17,389	1.68%	-0.49%
$        5.99	8,259	0.80%	-0.34%
$        6.99	5,300	0.51%	-0.24%
$        7.99	10,833	1.05%	-0.65%
$        8.99	12,478	1.21%	-0.29%
$        9.99	89,175	8.63%	-1.68%
$      10.99	395	0.04%	-0.01%
$      11.99	804	0.08%	-0.02%
$      12.99	1,285	0.12%	-0.01%
$      13.99	302	0.03%	0.00%
$      14.99	1,386	0.13%	-0.02%
$      15.99	146	0.01%	0.00%
$      16.99	151	0.01%	0.00%
$      17.99	144	0.01%	-0.01%
$      18.99	75	0.01%	-0.01%
$      19.99	368	0.04%	-0.01%
$      20.99	22	0.00%	0.00%
$      21.99	150	0.01%	0.00%
$      22.99	26	0.00%	0.00%
$      23.99	35	0.00%	0.00%
$      24.99	66	0.01%	0.00%

—

11/1/2011
Total	1,058,635
Prime	968,948
Under $10	859,492
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$    0.99	84,612	7.99%	0.06%
$    1.99	7,659	0.72%	-0.84%
$    2.99	19,157	1.81%	-2.86%
$    3.99	10,245	0.97%	-0.66%
$    4.99	7,451	0.70%	-0.98%
$    5.99	3,026	0.29%	-0.51%
$    6.99	2,533	0.24%	-0.27%
$    7.99	8,414	0.79%	-0.25%
$    8.99	11,882	1.12%	-0.08%
$    9.99	70,312	6.64%	-1.99%
$   10.99	348	0.03%	-0.01%
$   11.99	1,144	0.11%	0.03%
$   12.99	1,068	0.10%	-0.02%
$   13.99	280	0.03%	0.00%
$   14.99	1,171	0.11%	-0.02%
$   15.99	69	0.01%	-0.01%
$   16.99	118	0.01%	0.00%
$   17.99	116	0.01%	0.00%
$   18.99	59	0.01%	0.00%
$   19.99	234	0.02%	-0.01%
$   20.99	33	0.00%	0.00%
$   21.99	153	0.01%	0.00%
$   22.99	29	0.00%	0.00%
$   23.99	28	0.00%	0.00%
$   24.99	89	0.01%	0.00%

—

12/1/2011
Total	1,112,876
Prime	1021677
Under $10	907,647
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$    0.99	90,203	8.11%	0.11%
$    1.99	17,711	1.59%	0.87%
$    2.99	29,634	2.66%	0.85%
$    3.99	23,617	2.12%	1.15%
$    4.99	23,320	2.10%	1.39%
$    5.99	4,606	0.41%	0.13%
$    6.99	4,887	0.44%	0.20%
$    7.99	13,241	1.19%	0.40%
$    8.99	10,646	0.96%	-0.17%
$    9.99	71,709	6.44%	-0.20%
$   10.99	466	0.04%	0.01%
$   11.99	598	0.05%	-0.05%
$   12.99	1,038	0.09%	-0.01%
$   13.99	317	0.03%	0.00%
$   14.99	1,234	0.11%	0.00%
$   15.99	78	0.01%	0.00%
$   16.99	109	0.01%	0.00%
$   17.99	132	0.01%	0.00%
$   18.99	50	0.00%	0.00%
$   19.99	278	0.02%	0.00%
$   20.99	25	0.00%	0.00%
$   21.99	168	0.02%	0.00%
$   22.99	31	0.00%	0.00%
$   23.99	25	0.00%	0.00%
$   24.99	104	0.01%	0.00%

—

1/1/2012
Total	1,165,654
Prime	1073539
Under $10	955,187
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	99,225	8.51%	0.41%
$        1.99	16,088	1.38%	-0.21%
$        2.99	38,295	3.29%	0.62%
$        3.99	24,602	2.11%	-0.01%
$        4.99	18,289	1.57%	-0.53%
$        5.99	4,438	0.38%	-0.03%
$        6.99	5,002	0.43%	-0.01%
$        7.99	11,495	0.99%	-0.20%
$        8.99	12,412	1.06%	0.11%
$        9.99	68,467	5.87%	-0.57%
$      10.99	421	0.04%	-0.01%
$      11.99	549	0.05%	-0.01%
$      12.99	1,010	0.09%	-0.01%
$      13.99	270	0.02%	-0.01%
$      14.99	1,272	0.11%	0.00%
$      15.99	142	0.01%	0.01%
$      16.99	102	0.01%	0.00%
$      17.99	192	0.02%	0.00%
$      18.99	44	0.00%	0.00%
$      19.99	279	0.02%	0.00%
$      20.99	19	0.00%	0.00%
$      21.99	134	0.01%	0.00%
$      22.99	30	0.00%	0.00%
$      23.99	36	0.00%	0.00%
$      24.99	108	0.01%	0.00%

—

2/1/2012
Total	1,207,522
Prime	1,112,467
Under $10	994,448
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	107,238	8.88%	0.37%
$        1.99	8,528	0.71%	-0.67%
$        2.99	28,515	2.36%	-0.92%
$        3.99	7,463	0.62%	-1.49%
$        4.99	6,509	0.54%	-1.03%
$        5.99	2,761	0.23%	-0.15%
$        6.99	2,740	0.23%	-0.20%
$        7.99	7,571	0.63%	-0.36%
$        8.99	13,377	1.11%	0.04%
$        9.99	58,244	4.82%	-1.05%
$      10.99	331	0.03%	-0.01%
$      11.99	476	0.04%	-0.01%
$      12.99	914	0.08%	-0.01%
$      13.99	186	0.02%	-0.01%
$      14.99	988	0.08%	-0.03%
$      15.99	82	0.01%	-0.01%
$      16.99	98	0.01%	0.00%
$      17.99	194	0.02%	0.00%
$      18.99	59	0.00%	0.00%
$      19.99	167	0.01%	-0.01%
$      20.99	15	0.00%	0.00%
$      21.99	163	0.01%	0.00%
$      22.99	20	0.00%	0.00%
$      23.99	19	0.00%	0.00%
$      24.99	58	0.00%	0.00%

—

3/1/2012
Total	1,265,632
Prime	1,165,368
Under $10	1,044,889
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	113,150	8.94%	0.06%
$        1.99	10,638	0.84%	0.13%
$        2.99	43,320	3.42%	1.06%
$        3.99	18,776	1.48%	0.87%
$        4.99	8,565	0.68%	0.14%
$        5.99	3,879	0.31%	0.08%
$        6.99	3,591	0.28%	0.06%
$        7.99	8,164	0.65%	0.02%
$        8.99	14,825	1.17%	0.06%
$        9.99	62,009	4.90%	0.08%
$      10.99	375	0.03%	0.00%
$      11.99	673	0.05%	0.01%
$      12.99	936	0.07%	0.00%
$      13.99	249	0.02%	0.00%
$      14.99	1,005	0.08%	0.00%
$      15.99	117	0.01%	0.00%
$      16.99	102	0.01%	0.00%
$      17.99	210	0.02%	0.00%
$      18.99	55	0.00%	0.00%
$      19.99	213	0.02%	0.00%
$      20.99	12	0.00%	0.00%
$      21.99	170	0.01%	0.00%
$      22.99	26	0.00%	0.00%
$      23.99	20	0.00%	0.00%
$      24.99	73	0.01%	0.00%

—

4/1/2012
Total	1,315,927
Prime	1,215,625
Under $10	1,089,619
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	118,411	9.00%	0.06%
$        1.99	12,440	0.95%	0.10%
$        2.99	53,686	4.08%	0.66%
$        3.99	30,997	2.36%	0.87%
$        4.99	10,786	0.82%	0.14%
$        5.99	5,026	0.38%	0.08%
$        6.99	4,705	0.36%	0.07%
$        7.99	8,988	0.68%	0.04%
$        8.99	5,461	0.41%	-0.76%
$        9.99	71,568	5.44%	0.54%
$      10.99	654	0.05%	0.02%
$      11.99	1,281	0.10%	0.04%
$      12.99	1,835	0.14%	0.07%
$      13.99	438	0.03%	0.01%
$      14.99	1,739	0.13%	0.05%
$      15.99	323	0.02%	0.02%
$      16.99	236	0.02%	0.01%
$      17.99	86	0.01%	-0.01%
$      18.99	118	0.01%	0.00%
$      19.99	395	0.03%	0.01%
$      20.99	25	0.00%	0.00%
$      21.99	272	0.02%	0.01%
$      22.99	34	0.00%	0.00%
$      23.99	17	0.00%	0.00%
$      24.99	96	0.01%	0.00%

—

5/1/2012
Total	1,358,922
Prime	1,261,606
Under $10	1,133,793
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	122,040	9.27%	0.28%
$        1.99	13,124	1.00%	0.05%
$        2.99	64,106	4.87%	0.79%
$        3.99	37,072	2.82%	0.46%
$        4.99	12,631	0.96%	0.14%
$        5.99	6,288	0.48%	0.10%
$        6.99	4,897	0.37%	0.01%
$        7.99	10,145	0.77%	0.09%
$        8.99	3,156	0.24%	-0.18%
$        9.99	76,063	5.78%	0.34%
$      10.99	809	0.06%	0.01%
$      11.99	1,816	0.14%	0.04%
$      12.99	2,159	0.16%	0.02%
$      13.99	565	0.04%	0.01%
$      14.99	2,010	0.15%	0.02%
$      15.99	140	0.01%	-0.01%
$      16.99	306	0.02%	0.01%
$      17.99	78	0.01%	0.00%
$      18.99	91	0.01%	0.00%
$      19.99	471	0.04%	0.01%
$      20.99	24	0.00%	0.00%
$      21.99	283	0.02%	0.00%
$      22.99	34	0.00%	0.00%
$      23.99	27	0.00%	0.00%
$      24.99	150	0.01%	0.00%

—

5/1/2012
Total	1,407,210
Prime	1,308,331
Under $10	1,174,668
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	125,811	9.56%	0.29%
$        1.99	13,076	0.99%	0.00%
$        2.99	66,685	5.07%	0.20%
$        3.99	36,204	2.75%	-0.07%
$        4.99	11,225	0.85%	-0.11%
$        5.99	5,903	0.45%	-0.03%
$        6.99	4,569	0.35%	-0.02%
$        7.99	10,524	0.80%	0.03%
$        8.99	2,717	0.21%	-0.03%
$        9.99	71,733	5.45%	-0.33%
$      10.99	885	0.07%	0.01%
$      11.99	1,818	0.14%	0.00%
$      12.99	2,140	0.16%	0.00%
$      13.99	684	0.05%	0.01%
$      14.99	2,042	0.16%	0.00%
$      15.99	182	0.01%	0.00%
$      16.99	302	0.02%	0.00%
$      17.99	73	0.01%	0.00%
$      18.99	108	0.01%	0.00%
$      19.99	513	0.04%	0.00%
$      20.99	29	0.00%	0.00%
$      21.99	251	0.02%	0.00%
$      22.99	35	0.00%	0.00%
$      23.99	29	0.00%	0.00%
$      24.99	97	0.01%	0.00%

—

7/1/2012
Total	1,451,504
Prime	1,343,776
Under $10	1,204,888
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	129,323	8.91%	-0.65%
$        1.99	12,780	0.88%	-0.11%
$        2.99	64,315	4.43%	-0.64%
$        3.99	27,128	1.87%	-0.88%
$        4.99	12,335	0.85%	0.00%
$        5.99	6,307	0.43%	-0.01%
$        6.99	5,118	0.35%	0.01%
$        7.99	10,689	0.74%	-0.06%
$        8.99	2,871	0.20%	-0.01%
$        9.99	78,303	5.39%	-0.06%
$      10.99	875	0.06%	-0.01%
$      11.99	1,804	0.12%	-0.01%
$      12.99	2,291	0.16%	0.00%
$      13.99	688	0.05%	0.00%
$      14.99	2,225	0.15%	0.00%
$      15.99	218	0.02%	0.00%
$      16.99	332	0.02%	0.00%
$      17.99	79	0.01%	0.00%
$      18.99	104	0.01%	0.00%
$      19.99	443	0.03%	-0.01%
$      20.99	26	0.00%	0.00%
$      21.99	319	0.02%	0.00%
$      22.99	44	0.00%	0.00%
$      23.99	30	0.00%	0.00%
$      24.99	109	0.01%	0.00%

—

8/1/2012
Total	1,486,649
Prime	1,379,399
Under $10	1,240,062
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	137,876	9.27%	0.36%
$        1.99	9,880	0.66%	-0.22%
$        2.99	46,971	3.16%	-1.27%
$        3.99	12,096	0.81%	-1.06%
$        4.99	8,445	0.57%	-0.28%
$        5.99	4,956	0.33%	-0.10%
$        6.99	3,180	0.21%	-0.14%
$        7.99	10,781	0.73%	-0.01%
$        8.99	2,877	0.19%	0.00%
$        9.99	70,140	4.72%	-0.68%
$      10.99	962	0.06%	0.00%
$      11.99	1,910	0.13%	0.00%
$      12.99	2,371	0.16%	0.00%
$      13.99	636	0.04%	0.00%
$      14.99	2,056	0.14%	-0.01%
$      15.99	192	0.01%	0.00%
$      16.99	357	0.02%	0.00%
$      17.99	121	0.01%	0.00%
$      18.99	82	0.01%	0.00%
$      19.99	337	0.02%	-0.01%
$      20.99	35	0.00%	0.00%
$      21.99	364	0.02%	0.00%
$      22.99	38	0.00%	0.00%
$      23.99	24	0.00%	0.00%
$      24.99	86	0.01%	0.00%

—

9/1/2012
Total	1,531,069
Prime	1,421,168
Under $10	1,278,733
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	144,288	9.42%	0.15%
$        1.99	13,399	0.88%	0.21%
$        2.99	68,395	4.47%	1.31%
$        3.99	14,760	0.96%	0.15%
$        4.99	11,627	0.76%	0.19%
$        5.99	6,456	0.42%	0.09%
$        6.99	5,407	0.35%	0.14%
$        7.99	11,697	0.76%	0.04%
$        8.99	3,050	0.20%	0.01%
$        9.99	74,605	4.87%	0.15%
$      10.99	955	0.06%	0.00%
$      11.99	1,973	0.13%	0.00%
$      12.99	2,119	0.14%	-0.02%
$      13.99	582	0.04%	0.00%
$      14.99	2,039	0.13%	-0.01%
$      15.99	212	0.01%	0.00%
$      16.99	347	0.02%	0.00%
$      17.99	127	0.01%	0.00%
$      18.99	81	0.01%	0.00%
$      19.99	385	0.03%	0.00%
$      20.99	19	0.00%	0.00%
$      21.99	313	0.02%	0.00%
$      22.99	38	0.00%	0.00%
$      23.99	26	0.00%	0.00%
$      24.99	99	0.01%	0.00%

—

10/1/2012
Total	1,579,329
Prime	1,466,890
Under $10	1,322,272
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	147,931	9.37%	-0.06%
$        1.99	16,053	1.02%	0.14%
$        2.99	87,788	5.56%	1.09%
$        3.99	20,853	1.32%	0.36%
$        4.99	14,656	0.93%	0.17%
$        5.99	7,558	0.48%	0.06%
$        6.99	6,642	0.42%	0.07%
$        7.99	13,807	0.87%	0.11%
$        8.99	3,256	0.21%	0.01%
$        9.99	84,003	5.32%	0.45%
$      10.99	972	0.06%	0.00%
$      11.99	2,052	0.13%	0.00%
$      12.99	2,189	0.14%	0.00%
$      13.99	587	0.04%	0.00%
$      14.99	2,123	0.13%	0.00%
$      15.99	216	0.01%	0.00%
$      16.99	339	0.02%	0.00%
$      17.99	109	0.01%	0.00%
$      18.99	117	0.01%	0.00%
$      19.99	509	0.03%	0.01%
$      20.99	32	0.00%	0.00%
$      21.99	371	0.02%	0.00%
$      22.99	38	0.00%	0.00%
$      23.99	32	0.00%	0.00%
$      24.99	109	0.01%	0.00%

—

Total	1,641,362
Prime	1,522,810
Under $10	1,371,227
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$    0.99	155,732	9.49%	0.12%
$    1.99	24,777	1.51%	0.49%
$    2.99	134,461	8.19%	2.63%
$    3.99	49,221	3.00%	1.68%
$    4.99	29,671	1.81%	0.88%
$    5.99	15,629	0.95%	0.47%
$    6.99	12,969	0.79%	0.37%
$    7.99	22,527	1.37%	0.50%
$    8.99	6,642	0.40%	0.20%
$    9.99	134,811	8.21%	2.89%
$   10.99	1,576	0.10%	0.03%
$   11.99	2,986	0.18%	0.05%
$   12.99	3,292	0.20%	0.06%
$   13.99	894	0.05%	0.02%
$   14.99	2,717	0.17%	0.03%
$   15.99	319	0.02%	0.01%
$   16.99	481	0.03%	0.01%
$   17.99	235	0.01%	0.01%
$   18.99	237	0.01%	0.01%
$   19.99	902	0.05%	0.02%
$   20.99	68	0.00%	0.00%
$   21.99	431	0.03%	0.00%
$   22.99	87	0.01%	0.00%
$   23.99	86	0.01%	0.00%
$   24.99	218	0.01%	0.01%

—

12/1/2012
Total	1,742,991
Prime	1,615,716
Under $10	1,451,437
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	163,634	9.97%	0.48%
$        1.99	40,111	2.44%	0.93%
$        2.99	192,449	11.72%	3.53%
$        3.99	122,419	7.46%	4.46%
$        4.99	50,073	3.05%	1.24%
$        5.99	27,780	1.69%	0.74%
$        6.99	20,681	1.26%	0.47%
$        7.99	40,348	2.46%	1.09%
$        8.99	10,692	0.65%	0.25%
$        9.99	236,101	14.38%	6.17%
$      10.99	2,423	0.15%	0.05%
$      11.99	4,346	0.26%	0.08%
$      12.99	4,614	0.28%	0.08%
$      13.99	1,299	0.08%	0.02%
$      14.99	3,439	0.21%	0.04%
$      15.99	840	0.05%	0.03%
$      16.99	595	0.04%	0.01%
$      17.99	354	0.02%	0.01%
$      18.99	495	0.03%	0.02%
$      19.99	1,498	0.09%	0.04%
$      20.99	120	0.01%	0.00%
$      21.99	383	0.02%	0.00%
$      22.99	153	0.01%	0.00%
$      23.99	136	0.01%	0.00%
$      24.99	370	0.02%	0.01%

—

1/1/2013
Total	1,805,001
Prime	1,671,220
Under $10	1,502,267
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$    0.99	172,149	10.49%	0.52%
$    1.99	42,262	2.57%	0.13%
$    2.99	206,531	12.58%	0.86%
$    3.99	126,369	7.70%	0.24%
$    4.99	52,158	3.18%	0.13%
$    5.99	29,128	1.77%	0.08%
$    6.99	20,656	1.26%	0.00%
$    7.99	41,417	2.52%	0.07%
$    8.99	10,775	0.66%	0.01%
$    9.99	235,662	14.36%	-0.03%
$   10.99	2,195	0.13%	-0.01%
$   11.99	4,123	0.25%	-0.01%
$   12.99	4,319	0.26%	-0.02%
$   13.99	1,207	0.07%	-0.01%
$   14.99	3,600	0.22%	0.01%
$   15.99	966	0.06%	0.01%
$   16.99	581	0.04%	0.00%
$   17.99	377	0.02%	0.00%
$   18.99	547	0.03%	0.00%
$   19.99	3,087	0.19%	0.10%
$   20.99	105	0.01%	0.00%
$   21.99	418	0.03%	0.00%
$   22.99	144	0.01%	0.00%
$   23.99	136	0.01%	0.00%
$   24.99	359	0.02%	0.00%

—

Percentages for February 1, 2013 were corrected on March 1, 2013

2/1/2013
Total	1,849,479
Prime	1,713,256
Under $10	1,534,604
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$    0.99	178,913	9.67%	-0.81%
$    1.99	45,121	2.44%	-0.14%
$    2.99	214,748	11.61%	-0.97%
$    3.99	130,320	7.05%	-0.65%
$    4.99	54,653	2.96%	-0.22%
$    5.99	31,434	1.70%	-0.08%
$    6.99	21,941	1.19%	-0.07%
$    7.99	42,620	2.30%	-0.22%
$    8.99	10,835	0.59%	-0.07%
$    9.99	230,800	12.48%	-1.88%
$   10.99	2,463	0.13%	0.00%
$   11.99	4,593	0.25%	0.00%
$   12.99	4,563	0.25%	-0.02%
$   13.99	1,304	0.07%	0.00%
$   14.99	3,703	0.20%	-0.02%
$   15.99	1,004	0.05%	0.00%
$   16.99	659	0.04%	0.00%
$   17.99	435	0.02%	0.00%
$   18.99	598	0.03%	0.00%
$   19.99	5,276	0.29%	0.10%
$   20.99	116	0.01%	0.00%
$   21.99	458	0.02%	0.00%
$   22.99	178	0.01%	0.00%
$   23.99	154	0.01%	0.00%
$   24.99	395	0.02%	0.00%

—

3/1/2013
Total	1,913,164
Prime	1,770,452
Under $10	1,564,429
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	187,353	9.79%	0.12%
$        1.99	49,309	2.58%	0.14%
$        2.99	227,956	11.92%	0.30%
$        3.99	133,323	6.97%	-0.08%
$        4.99	58,386	3.05%	0.10%
$        5.99	35,339	1.85%	0.15%
$        6.99	25,102	1.31%	0.13%
$        7.99	45,755	2.39%	0.09%
$        8.99	12,282	0.64%	0.06%
$        9.99	224,082	11.71%	-0.77%
$      10.99	3,590	0.19%	0.05%
$      11.99	7,838	0.41%	0.16%
$      12.99	6,533	0.34%	0.09%
$      13.99	2,318	0.12%	0.05%
$      14.99	4,760	0.25%	0.05%
$      15.99	1,341	0.07%	0.02%
$      16.99	1,129	0.06%	0.02%
$      17.99	719	0.04%	0.01%
$      18.99	920	0.05%	0.02%
$      19.99	5,711	0.30%	0.01%
$      20.99	303	0.02%	0.01%
$      21.99	280	0.01%	-0.01%
$      22.99	359	0.02%	0.01%
$      23.99	250	0.01%	0.00%
$      24.99	482	0.03%	0.00%

—

4/1/2013
Total	1,924,138
Prime	1,785,986
Under $10	1,573,845
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	193,771	10.07%	0.28%
$        1.99	50,993	2.65%	0.07%
$        2.99	240,734	12.51%	0.60%
$        3.99	138,910	7.22%	0.25%
$        4.99	60,568	3.15%	0.10%
$        5.99	37,409	1.94%	0.10%
$        6.99	25,863	1.34%	0.03%
$        7.99	47,298	2.46%	0.07%
$        8.99	12,791	0.66%	0.02%
$        9.99	235,041	12.22%	0.50%
$      10.99	3,781	0.20%	0.01%
$      11.99	9,716	0.50%	0.10%
$      12.99	6,538	0.34%	0.00%
$      13.99	2,325	0.12%	0.00%
$      14.99	4,848	0.25%	0.00%
$      15.99	1,403	0.07%	0.00%
$      16.99	1,182	0.06%	0.00%
$      17.99	759	0.04%	0.00%
$      18.99	922	0.05%	0.00%
$      19.99	5,772	0.30%	0.00%
$      20.99	249	0.01%	0.00%
$      21.99	277	0.01%	0.00%
$      22.99	3,212	0.17%	0.15%
$      23.99	281	0.01%	0.00%
$      24.99	519	0.03%	0.00%

—

5/1/2013
Total	1,940,274
Prime	1,801,844
Under $10	1,582,685
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$    0.99	201,240	10.37%	0.30%
$    1.99	52,243	2.69%	0.04%
$    2.99	251,311	12.95%	0.44%
$    3.99	141,835	7.31%	0.09%
$    4.99	62,839	3.24%	0.09%
$    5.99	37,835	1.95%	0.01%
$    6.99	25,567	1.32%	-0.03%
$    7.99	42,663	2.20%	-0.26%
$    8.99	13,147	0.68%	0.01%
$    9.99	237,096	12.22%	0.00%
$   10.99	3,738	0.19%	0.00%
$   11.99	9,891	0.51%	0.00%
$   12.99	7,097	0.37%	0.03%
$   13.99	2,922	0.15%	0.03%
$   14.99	5,166	0.27%	0.01%
$   15.99	1,523	0.08%	0.01%
$   16.99	1,263	0.07%	0.00%
$   17.99	795	0.04%	0.00%
$   18.99	992	0.05%	0.00%
$   19.99	5,704	0.29%	-0.01%
$   20.99	403	0.02%	0.01%
$   21.99	282	0.01%	0.00%
$   22.99	325	0.02%	-0.15%
$   23.99	278	0.01%	0.00%
$   24.99	513	0.03%	0.00%

—

6/1/2013
Total	1,972,277
Prime	1,828,577
Under $10	1,605,912
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$    0.99	203,653	10.33%	-0.05%
$    1.99	59,583	3.02%	0.33%
$    2.99	269,149	13.65%	0.69%
$    3.99	177,673	9.01%	1.70%
$    4.99	64,192	3.25%	0.02%
$    5.99	39,122	1.98%	0.03%
$    6.99	26,506	1.34%	0.03%
$    7.99	44,572	2.26%	0.06%
$    8.99	13,388	0.68%	0.00%
$    9.99	246,384	12.49%	0.27%
$   10.99	3,809	0.19%	0.00%
$   11.99	10,090	0.51%	0.00%
$   12.99	7,409	0.38%	0.01%
$   13.99	3,008	0.15%	0.00%
$   14.99	5,322	0.27%	0.00%
$   15.99	1,560	0.08%	0.00%
$   16.99	1,298	0.07%	0.00%
$   17.99	772	0.04%	0.00%
$   18.99	970	0.05%	0.00%
$   19.99	5,749	0.29%	0.00%
$   20.99	239	0.01%	-0.01%
$   21.99	287	0.01%	0.00%
$   22.99	307	0.02%	0.00%
$   23.99	238	0.01%	0.00%
$   24.99	513	0.03%	0.00%

—

7/1/2013
Total	1,998,705
Prime	1,855,614
Under $10	1,627,666
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	213,310	10.67%	0.35%
$        1.99	62,342	3.12%	0.10%
$        2.99	278,848	13.95%	0.30%
$        3.99	193,610	9.69%	0.68%
$        4.99	66,074	3.31%	0.05%
$        5.99	40,374	2.02%	0.04%
$        6.99	27,288	1.37%	0.02%
$        7.99	45,103	2.26%	0.00%
$        8.99	13,847	0.69%	0.01%
$        9.99	284,366	14.23%	1.74%
$      10.99	4,009	0.20%	0.01%
$      11.99	10,950	0.55%	0.04%
$      12.99	7,321	0.37%	-0.01%
$      13.99	3,474	0.17%	0.02%
$      14.99	5,331	0.27%	0.00%
$      15.99	1,596	0.08%	0.00%
$      16.99	1,391	0.07%	0.00%
$      17.99	791	0.04%	0.00%
$      18.99	997	0.05%	0.00%
$      19.99	5,888	0.29%	0.00%
$      20.99	427	0.02%	0.01%
$      21.99	316	0.02%	0.00%
$      22.99	315	0.02%	0.00%
$      23.99	303	0.02%	0.00%
$      24.99	536	0.03%	0.00%

—

8/1/2013
Total	2,060,431
Prime	1,913,454
Under $10	1,681,162
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$    0.99	222,737	10.81%	0.14%
$    1.99	64,606	3.14%	0.02%
$    2.99	291,135	14.13%	0.18%
$    3.99	198,365	9.63%	-0.06%
$    4.99	68,727	3.34%	0.03%
$    5.99	41,493	2.01%	-0.01%
$    6.99	26,838	1.30%	-0.06%
$    7.99	43,276	2.10%	-0.16%
$    8.99	14,083	0.68%	-0.01%
$    9.99	250,215	12.14%	-2.08%
$   10.99	4,366	0.21%	0.01%
$   11.99	10,785	0.52%	-0.02%
$   12.99	5,311	0.26%	-0.11%
$   13.99	5,063	0.25%	0.07%
$   14.99	5,243	0.25%	-0.01%
$   15.99	1,700	0.08%	0.00%
$   16.99	1,496	0.07%	0.00%
$   17.99	884	0.04%	0.00%
$   18.99	1,112	0.05%	0.00%
$   19.99	6,138	0.30%	0.00%
$   20.99	525	0.03%	0.00%
$   21.99	452	0.02%	0.01%
$   22.99	1,217	0.06%	0.04%
$   23.99	492	0.02%	0.01%
$   24.99	603	0.03%	0.00%

—

9/5/2013
Total	2,125,648
Prime	1,975,738
Under $10	1,740,605
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	231,849	10.91%	0.10%
$        1.99	66,882	3.15%	0.01%
$        2.99	306,025	14.40%	0.27%
$        3.99	205,151	9.65%	0.02%
$        4.99	70,590	3.32%	-0.01%
$        5.99	50,259	2.36%	0.35%
$        6.99	26,971	1.27%	-0.03%
$        7.99	46,685	2.20%	0.10%
$        8.99	14,005	0.66%	-0.02%
$        9.99	259,151	12.19%	0.05%
$      10.99	7,970	0.37%	0.16%
$      11.99	7,437	0.35%	-0.17%
$      12.99	4,779	0.22%	-0.03%
$      13.99	4,446	0.21%	-0.04%
$      14.99	4,586	0.22%	-0.04%
$      15.99	1,481	0.07%	-0.01%
$      16.99	1,635	0.08%	0.00%
$      17.99	1,117	0.05%	0.01%
$      18.99	902	0.04%	-0.01%
$      19.99	6,213	0.29%	-0.01%
$      20.99	529	0.02%	0.00%
$      21.99	596	0.03%	0.01%
$      22.99	1,651	0.08%	0.02%
$      23.99	557	0.03%	0.00%
$      24.99	651	0.03%	0.00%

—

10/1/2013
Total	2,175,847
Prime	2,024,990
Under $10	1,777,735
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	238,423	10.96%	0.05%
$        1.99	68,359	3.14%	-0.01%
$        2.99	317,934	14.61%	0.21%
$        3.99	312,151	14.35%	4.70%
$        4.99	73,574	3.38%	0.06%
$        5.99	51,850	2.38%	0.02%
$        6.99	28,129	1.29%	0.02%
$        7.99	48,784	2.24%	0.04%
$        8.99	14,346	0.66%	0.00%
$        9.99	259,306	11.92%	-0.27%
$      10.99	8,826	0.41%	0.04%
$      11.99	7,401	0.34%	-0.01%
$      12.99	4,852	0.22%	0.00%
$      13.99	4,469	0.21%	0.00%
$      14.99	4,961	0.23%	0.01%
$      15.99	1,490	0.07%	0.00%
$      16.99	1,727	0.08%	0.00%
$      17.99	1,525	0.07%	0.02%
$      18.99	970	0.04%	0.00%
$      19.99	6,421	0.30%	0.01%
$      20.99	553	0.03%	0.01%
$      21.99	595	0.03%	0.00%
$      22.99	1,625	0.07%	-0.01%
$      23.99	577	0.03%	0.00%
$      24.99	613	0.03%	0.00%

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11/1/2013
Total	2,229,223
Prime	2,073,157
Under $10	1,823,817
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	245,549	11.02%	0.06%
$        1.99	70,824	3.18%	0.04%
$        2.99	325,129	14.58%	-0.03%
$        3.99	213,135	9.56%	-4.79%
$        4.99	74,995	3.36%	-0.02%
$        5.99	53,013	2.38%	0.00%
$        6.99	28,248	1.27%	-0.03%
$        7.99	47,988	2.15%	-0.09%
$        8.99	14,539	0.65%	-0.01%
$        9.99	266,628	11.96%	0.04%
$      10.99	8,790	0.39%	-0.01%
$      11.99	7,682	0.34%	0.00%
$      12.99	5,598	0.25%	0.03%
$      13.99	4,992	0.22%	0.02%
$      14.99	5,054	0.23%	0.00%
$      15.99	1,275	0.06%	-0.01%
$      16.99	1,834	0.08%	0.00%
$      17.99	1,240	0.06%	-0.01%
$      18.99	895	0.04%	0.00%
$      19.99	6,502	0.29%	0.00%
$      20.99	602	0.03%	0.00%
$      21.99	691	0.03%	0.00%
$      22.99	1,839	0.08%	0.01%
$      23.99	645	0.03%	0.00%
$      24.99	729	0.03%	0.00%

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12/1/2013
Total	2,287,866
Prime	2,130,446
Under $10	1,875,538
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	255,501	11.17%	0.15%
$        1.99	74,368	3.25%	0.07%
$        2.99	337,864	14.77%	0.18%
$        3.99	218,896	9.57%	0.01%
$        4.99	77,232	3.38%	0.01%
$        5.99	55,270	2.42%	0.04%
$        6.99	30,860	1.35%	0.08%
$        7.99	49,240	2.15%	0.00%
$        8.99	15,487	0.68%	0.02%
$        9.99	272,875	11.93%	-0.03%
$      10.99	9,398	0.41%	0.02%
$      11.99	7,774	0.34%	0.00%
$      12.99	6,022	0.26%	0.01%
$      13.99	5,961	0.26%	0.04%
$      14.99	5,213	0.23%	0.00%
$      15.99	1,364	0.06%	0.00%
$      16.99	2,014	0.09%	0.01%
$      17.99	1,388	0.06%	0.01%
$      18.99	964	0.04%	0.00%
$      19.99	6,732	0.29%	0.00%
$      20.99	617	0.03%	0.00%
$      21.99	601	0.03%	0.00%
$      22.99	2,212	0.10%	0.01%
$      23.99	720	0.03%	0.00%
$      24.99	713	0.03%	0.00%

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1/1/2014
Total	2,351,290
Prime	2,193,346
Under $10	1,932,395
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	264,312	11.24%	0.07%
$        1.99	76,862	3.27%	0.02%
$        2.99	351,577	14.95%	0.18%
$        3.99	225,039	9.57%	0.00%
$        4.99	80,375	3.42%	0.04%
$        5.99	56,485	2.40%	-0.01%
$        6.99	31,851	1.35%	0.01%
$        7.99	49,583	2.11%	-0.04%
$        8.99	15,829	0.67%	0.00%
$        9.99	275,314	11.71%	-0.22%
$      10.99	9,434	0.40%	-0.01%
$      11.99	7,279	0.31%	-0.03%
$      12.99	6,069	0.26%	-0.01%
$      13.99	6,200	0.26%	0.00%
$      14.99	5,247	0.22%	0.00%
$      15.99	1,405	0.06%	0.00%
$      16.99	1,986	0.08%	0.00%
$      17.99	1,417	0.06%	0.00%
$      18.99	1,068	0.05%	0.00%
$      19.99	6,682	0.28%	-0.01%
$      20.99	638	0.03%	0.00%
$      21.99	627	0.03%	0.00%
$      22.99	2,177	0.09%	0.00%
$      23.99	696	0.03%	0.00%
$      24.99	737	0.03%	0.00%

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2/1/2014
Total	2,411,705
Prime	2,254,215
Under $10	1,976,453
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	273,966	11.36%	0.12%
$        1.99	79,239	3.29%	0.02%
$        2.99	365,052	15.14%	0.18%
$        3.99	231,231	9.59%	0.02%
$        4.99	83,304	3.45%	0.04%
$        5.99	58,024	2.41%	0.00%
$        6.99	32,588	1.35%	0.00%
$        7.99	51,152	2.12%	0.01%
$        8.99	16,244	0.67%	0.00%
$        9.99	271,056	11.24%	-0.47%
$      10.99	9,818	0.41%	0.01%
$      11.99	7,157	0.30%	-0.01%
$      12.99	6,374	0.26%	0.01%
$      13.99	6,351	0.26%	0.00%
$      14.99	5,133	0.21%	-0.01%
$      15.99	1,452	0.06%	0.00%
$      16.99	2,055	0.09%	0.00%
$      17.99	1,391	0.06%	0.00%
$      18.99	1,079	0.04%	0.00%
$      19.99	6,754	0.28%	0.00%
$      20.99	663	0.03%	0.00%
$      21.99	718	0.03%	0.00%
$      22.99	2,279	0.09%	0.00%
$      23.99	656	0.03%	0.00%
$      24.99	853	0.04%	0.00%

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3/1/2014
Total	2,462,832
Prime	2,300,490
Under $10	2,012,504
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	276,416	11.22%	-0.14%
$        1.99	81,172	3.30%	0.01%
$        2.99	374,242	15.20%	0.06%
$        3.99	236,420	9.60%	0.01%
$        4.99	85,557	3.47%	0.02%
$        5.99	59,557	2.42%	0.01%
$        6.99	33,228	1.35%	0.00%
$        7.99	52,582	2.14%	0.01%
$        8.99	16,399	0.67%	-0.01%
$        9.99	271,867	11.04%	-0.20%
$      10.99	9,903	0.40%	0.00%
$      11.99	6,796	0.28%	-0.02%
$      12.99	6,580	0.27%	0.00%
$      13.99	6,378	0.26%	0.00%
$      14.99	5,281	0.21%	0.00%
$      15.99	1,573	0.06%	0.00%
$      16.99	2,122	0.09%	0.00%
$      17.99	1,494	0.06%	0.00%
$      18.99	1,112	0.05%	0.00%
$      19.99	6,907	0.28%	0.00%
$      20.99	666	0.03%	0.00%
$      21.99	656	0.03%	0.00%
$      22.99	2,359	0.10%	0.00%
$      23.99	727	0.03%	0.00%
$      24.99	774	0.03%	0.00%

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4/1/2014 N/A

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May comparisons are to March.

5/1/2014
Total	2,576,453
Prime	2,404,221
Under $10	2,106,603
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	293,126	11.38%	0.15%
$        1.99	86,947	3.37%	0.08%
$        2.99	401,044	15.57%	0.37%
$        3.99	233,515	9.06%	-0.54%
$        4.99	91,936	3.57%	0.09%
$        5.99	61,776	2.40%	-0.02%
$        6.99	34,697	1.35%	0.00%
$        7.99	54,851	2.13%	-0.01%
$        8.99	17,514	0.68%	0.01%
$        9.99	278,815	10.82%	-0.22%
$      10.99	9,961	0.39%	-0.02%
$      11.99	6,970	0.27%	-0.01%
$      12.99	7,058	0.27%	0.01%
$      13.99	6,988	0.27%	0.01%
$      14.99	5,450	0.21%	0.00%
$      15.99	1,662	0.06%	0.00%
$      16.99	2,160	0.08%	0.00%
$      17.99	1,405	0.05%	-0.01%
$      18.99	1,181	0.05%	0.00%
$      19.99	7,098	0.28%	0.00%
$      20.99	726	0.03%	0.00%
$      21.99	698	0.03%	0.00%
$      22.99	2,634	0.10%	0.01%
$      23.99	901	0.03%	0.01%
$      24.99	828	0.03%	0.00%

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Note: these numbers appear to be more accurate than numbers run earlier in the day, when it seems that searching Amazon was producing lower counts than would be expected.

6/1/2014
Total	2,597,112
Prime	2,422,630
Under $10	2,121,022
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	301,021	11.59%	0.21%
$        1.99	88,333	3.40%	0.03%
$        2.99	415,189	15.99%	0.42%
$        3.99	209,623	8.07%	-0.99%
$        4.99	94,762	3.65%	0.08%
$        5.99	62,434	2.40%	0.01%
$        6.99	35,976	1.39%	0.04%
$        7.99	56,787	2.19%	0.06%
$        8.99	18,236	0.70%	0.02%
$        9.99	281,246	10.83%	0.01%
$      10.99	9,351	0.36%	-0.03%
$      11.99	7,042	0.27%	0.00%
$      12.99	7,059	0.27%	0.00%
$      13.99	6,890	0.27%	-0.01%
$      14.99	5,576	0.21%	0.00%
$      15.99	1,584	0.06%	0.00%
$      16.99	2,123	0.08%	0.00%
$      17.99	1,406	0.05%	0.00%
$      18.99	1,116	0.04%	0.00%
$      19.99	7,015	0.27%	-0.01%
$      20.99	703	0.03%	0.00%
$      21.99	665	0.03%	0.00%
$      22.99	2,578	0.10%	0.00%
$      23.99	854	0.03%	0.00%
$      24.99	822	0.03%	0.00%

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7/1/2014
Total	2,655,727
Prime	2,477,343
Under $10	2,172,079
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	311,255	11.72%	0.13%
$        1.99	89,893	3.38%	-0.02%
$        2.99	427,848	16.11%	0.12%
$        3.99	212,706	8.01%	-0.06%
$        4.99	97,481	3.67%	0.02%
$        5.99	63,729	2.40%	0.00%
$        6.99	37,002	1.39%	0.01%
$        7.99	58,427	2.20%	0.01%
$        8.99	18,326	0.69%	-0.01%
$        9.99	288,137	10.85%	0.02%
$      10.99	9,602	0.36%	0.00%
$      11.99	7,017	0.26%	-0.01%
$      12.99	7,169	0.27%	0.00%
$      13.99	7,033	0.26%	0.00%
$      14.99	5,601	0.21%	0.00%
$      15.99	1,527	0.06%	0.00%
$      16.99	1,991	0.07%	-0.01%
$      17.99	1,253	0.05%	-0.01%
$      18.99	1,051	0.04%	0.00%
$      19.99	6,999	0.26%	-0.01%
$      20.99	684	0.03%	0.00%
$      21.99	645	0.02%	0.00%
$      22.99	2,650	0.10%	0.00%
$      23.99	875	0.03%	0.00%
$      24.99	853	0.03%	0.00%

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8/1/2014
Total	2,725,829
Prime	2,546,640
Under $10	2,234,045
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	319,829	11.73%	0.01%
$        1.99	93,589	3.43%	0.05%
$        2.99	446,323	16.37%	0.26%
$        3.99	217,796	7.99%	-0.02%
$        4.99	103,009	3.78%	0.11%
$        5.99	65,203	2.39%	-0.01%
$        6.99	38,298	1.41%	0.01%
$        7.99	60,420	2.22%	0.02%
$        8.99	21,181	0.78%	0.09%
$        9.99	293,641	10.77%	-0.08%
$      10.99	10,525	0.39%	0.02%
$      11.99	7,556	0.28%	0.01%
$      12.99	7,698	0.28%	0.01%
$      13.99	6,724	0.25%	-0.02%
$      14.99	5,871	0.22%	0.00%
$      15.99	1,656	0.06%	0.00%
$      16.99	2,292	0.08%	0.01%
$      17.99	1,830	0.07%	0.02%
$      18.99	1,183	0.04%	0.00%
$      19.99	7,239	0.27%	0.00%
$      20.99	717	0.03%	0.00%
$      21.99	744	0.03%	0.00%
$      22.99	2,679	0.10%	0.00%
$      23.99	960	0.04%	0.00%
$      24.99	915	0.03%	0.00%

Note: the titles in store, $0.01 to $50, and under$10 numbers reflect the updated results when I ran these later in the same day.

8/1/2014
Total	2,801,221
Prime	2,621,516
Under $10	2,304,717
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	330,370	11.79%	0.06%
$        1.99	97,242	3.47%	0.04%
$        2.99	462,102	16.50%	0.12%
$        3.99	224,829	8.03%	0.04%
$        4.99	111,039	3.96%	0.18%
$        5.99	66,635	2.38%	-0.01%
$        6.99	39,602	1.41%	0.01%
$        7.99	62,120	2.22%	0.00%
$        8.99	21,567	0.77%	-0.01%
$        9.99	301,033	10.75%	-0.03%
$      10.99	11,016	0.39%	0.01%
$      11.99	8,995	0.32%	0.04%
$      12.99	8,313	0.30%	0.01%
$      13.99	7,040	0.25%	0.00%
$      14.99	6,336	0.23%	0.01%
$      15.99	1,963	0.07%	0.01%
$      16.99	2,333	0.08%	0.00%
$      17.99	2,024	0.07%	0.01%
$      18.99	1,372	0.05%	0.01%
$      19.99	7,337	0.26%	0.00%
$      20.99	745	0.03%	0.00%
$      21.99	800	0.03%	0.00%
$      22.99	2,649	0.09%	0.00%
$      23.99	996	0.04%	0.00%
$      24.99	925	0.03%	0.00%

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October 1, 2014 figures are compared to August 1, 2014 figures.

10/1/2014
Total	2,888,225
Prime	2,707,622
Under $10	2,387,727
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	340,476	11.79%	-0.01%
$        1.99	100,267	3.47%	0.00%
$        2.99	478,906	16.58%	0.08%
$        3.99	231,562	8.02%	-0.01%
$        4.99	121,967	4.22%	0.26%
$        5.99	68,437	2.37%	-0.01%
$        6.99	40,450	1.40%	-0.01%
$        7.99	64,121	2.22%	0.00%
$        8.99	21,724	0.75%	-0.02%
$        9.99	304,463	10.54%	-0.20%
$      10.99	10,974	0.38%	-0.01%
$      11.99	8,869	0.31%	-0.01%
$      12.99	8,136	0.28%	-0.02%
$      13.99	7,108	0.25%	-0.01%
$      14.99	6,295	0.22%	-0.01%
$      15.99	1,864	0.06%	-0.01%
$      16.99	2,341	0.08%	0.00%
$      17.99	2,033	0.07%	0.00%
$      18.99	1,358	0.05%	0.00%
$      19.99	7,426	0.26%	0.00%
$      20.99	783	0.03%	0.00%
$      21.99	786	0.03%	0.00%
$      22.99	2,782	0.10%	0.00%
$      23.99	988	0.03%	0.00%
$      24.99	955	0.03%	0.00%

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11/1/2014
Total	2,958,430
Prime	2,451,370
Under $10	2,774,474
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$        0.99	347,796	11.76%	-0.03%
$        1.99	103,685	3.50%	0.03%
$        2.99	501,218	16.94%	0.36%
$        3.99	239,807	8.11%	0.09%
$        4.99	124,551	4.21%	-0.01%
$        5.99	69,901	2.36%	-0.01%
$        6.99	41,474	1.40%	0.00%
$        7.99	67,038	2.27%	0.05%
$        8.99	22,636	0.77%	0.01%
$        9.99	310,306	10.49%	-0.05%
$      10.99	10,525	0.36%	-0.02%
$      11.99	8,873	0.30%	-0.01%
$      12.99	8,088	0.27%	-0.01%
$      13.99	7,089	0.24%	-0.01%
$      14.99	6,594	0.22%	0.00%
$      15.99	1,904	0.06%	0.00%
$      16.99	2,325	0.08%	0.00%
$      17.99	2,033	0.07%	0.00%
$      18.99	1,310	0.04%	0.00%
$      19.99	7,729	0.26%	0.00%
$      20.99	811	0.03%	0.00%
$      21.99	757	0.03%	0.00%
$      22.99	2,843	0.10%	0.00%
$      23.99	1,050	0.04%	0.00%
$      24.99	966	0.03%	0.00%

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12/1/2014
Total	3,027,234
Prime	2,838,606
Under $10	2,506,715
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$0.99	362583	11.98%	0.22%
$1.99	108674	3.59%	0.09%
$2.99	521098	17.21%	0.27%
$3.99	45528	1.50%	-6.60%
$4.99	114694	3.79%	-0.42%
$5.99	71988	2.38%	0.02%
$6.99	41674	1.38%	-0.03%
$7.99	71196	2.35%	0.09%
$8.99	23645	0.78%	0.02%
$9.99	317601	10.49%	0.00%
$10.99	12673	0.42%	0.06%
$11.99	9143	0.30%	0.00%
$12.99	8215	0.27%	0.00%
$13.99	8006	0.26%	0.02%
$14.99	8317	0.27%	0.05%
$15.99	2180	0.07%	0.01%
$16.99	2540	0.08%	0.01%
$17.99	1869	0.06%	-0.01%
$18.99	1362	0.04%	0.00%
$19.99	8056	0.27%	0.00%
$20.99	906	0.03%	0.00%
$21.99	933	0.03%	0.01%
$22.99	3057	0.10%	0.00%
$23.99	1454	0.05%	0.01%
$24.99	1092	0.04%	0.00%

—

1/1/2015
Total	3,104,667
Prime	2,907,638
Under $10	2,567,412
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$0.99	369522	11.90%	-0.08%
$1.99	111432	3.59%	0.00%
$2.99	538644	17.35%	0.14%
$3.99	251181	8.09%	6.59%
$4.99	119304	3.84%	0.05%
$5.99	72570	2.34%	-0.04%
$6.99	42907	1.38%	0.01%
$7.99	75027	2.42%	0.06%
$8.99	23782	0.77%	-0.02%
$9.99	326084	10.50%	0.01%
$10.99	12760	0.41%	-0.01%
$11.99	9296	0.30%	0.00%
$12.99	9200	0.30%	0.02%
$13.99	8214	0.26%	0.00%
$14.99	8708	0.28%	0.01%
$15.99	2916	0.09%	0.02%
$16.99	2477	0.08%	0.00%
$17.99	2024	0.07%	0.00%
$18.99	1596	0.05%	0.01%
$19.99	8348	0.27%	0.00%
$20.99	992	0.03%	0.00%
$21.99	957	0.03%	0.00%
$22.99	3028	0.10%	0.00%
$23.99	1581	0.05%	0.00%
$24.99	1094	0.04%	0.00%

—

1/1/2015
Total	3,178,962
Prime	2,630,162
Under $10	2,976,291
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$0.99	376636	11.85%	-0.05%
$1.99	114659	3.61%	0.02%
$2.99	557871	17.55%	0.20%
$3.99	258648	8.14%	0.05%
$4.99	123021	3.87%	0.03%
$5.99	76921	2.42%	0.08%
$6.99	45097	1.42%	0.04%
$7.99	87551	2.75%	0.34%
$8.99	24815	0.78%	0.01%
$9.99	308260	9.70%	-0.81%
$10.99	13670	0.43%	0.02%
$11.99	11204	0.35%	0.05%
$12.99	10566	0.33%	0.04%
$13.99	8937	0.28%	0.02%
$14.99	10723	0.34%	0.06%
$15.99	3730	0.12%	0.02%
$16.99	2522	0.08%	0.00%
$17.99	1818	0.06%	-0.01%
$18.99	1564	0.05%	0.00%
$19.99	8794	0.28%	0.01%
$20.99	1009	0.03%	0.00%
$21.99	902	0.03%	0.00%
$22.99	3040	0.10%	0.00%
$23.99	1521	0.05%	0.00%
$24.99	1051	0.03%	0.00%

—

3/1/2015
Total	3,288,124
Prime	3,083,344
Under $10	2,721,649
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$0.99	390272	11.87%	0.02%
$1.99	121925	3.71%	0.10%
$2.99	581765	17.69%	0.14%
$3.99	270531	8.23%	0.09%
$4.99	125772	3.83%	-0.04%
$5.99	78558	2.39%	-0.03%
$6.99	47778	1.45%	0.03%
$7.99	88766	2.70%	-0.05%
$8.99	26343	0.80%	0.02%
$9.99	308550	9.38%	-0.31%
$10.99	14365	0.44%	0.01%
$11.99	11683	0.36%	0.00%
$12.99	11489	0.35%	0.02%
$13.99	9163	0.28%	0.00%
$14.99	11359	0.35%	0.01%
$15.99	4437	0.13%	0.02%
$16.99	3309	0.10%	0.02%
$17.99	2375	0.07%	0.02%
$18.99	1551	0.05%	0.00%
$19.99	10175	0.31%	0.03%
$20.99	1766	0.05%	0.02%
$21.99	831	0.03%	0.00%
$22.99	2801	0.09%	-0.01%
$23.99	1539	0.05%	0.00%
$24.99	1277	0.04%	0.01%

—

3/1/2015
Total	3,378,436
Prime	3,171,379
Under $10	2,802,470
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$0.99	408353	12.09%	0.22%
$1.99	126060	3.73%	0.02%
$2.99	605234	17.91%	0.22%
$3.99	277142	8.20%	-0.02%
$4.99	130374	3.86%	0.03%
$5.99	79905	2.37%	-0.02%
$6.99	49785	1.47%	0.02%
$7.99	88617	2.62%	-0.08%
$8.99	27171	0.80%	0.00%
$9.99	308933	9.14%	-0.24%
$10.99	15441	0.46%	0.02%
$11.99	11849	0.35%	0.00%
$12.99	11265	0.33%	-0.02%
$13.99	9081	0.27%	-0.01%
$14.99	13429	0.40%	0.05%
$15.99	4935	0.15%	0.01%
$16.99	2690	0.08%	-0.02%
$17.99	2433	0.07%	0.00%
$18.99	2458	0.07%	0.03%
$19.99	10786	0.32%	0.01%
$20.99	919	0.03%	-0.03%
$21.99	1354	0.04%	0.01%
$22.99	2429	0.07%	-0.01%
$23.99	1703	0.05%	0.00%
$24.99	1231	0.04%	0.00%

—

5/1/2015
Total	3,457,009
Prime	3,232,290
Under $10	2,736,106
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$0.99	416682	12.05%	-0.03%
$1.99	129165	3.74%	0.01%
$2.99	625341	18.09%	0.17%
$3.99	253107	7.32%	-0.88%
$4.99	193634	5.60%	1.74%
$5.99	95233	2.75%	0.39%
$6.99	64490	1.87%	0.39%
$7.99	78308	2.27%	-0.36%
$8.99	36530	1.06%	0.25%
$9.99	278082	8.04%	-1.10%
$10.99	24882	0.72%	0.26%
$11.99	20736	0.60%	0.25%
$12.99	18800	0.54%	0.21%
$13.99	13209	0.38%	0.11%
$14.99	12703	0.37%	-0.03%
$15.99	8759	0.25%	0.11%
$16.99	5821	0.17%	0.09%
$17.99	3954	0.11%	0.04%
$18.99	4622	0.13%	0.06%
$19.99	13931	0.40%	0.08%
$20.99	2287	0.07%	0.04%
$21.99	2514	0.07%	0.03%
$22.99	3546	0.10%	0.03%
$23.99	2694	0.08%	0.03%
$24.99	8141	0.24%	0.20%

—

6/1/2015
Total	3,530,378
Prime	3,306,054
Under $10	2,800,318
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$0.99	427822	12.12%	0.07%
$1.99	133400	3.78%	0.04%
$2.99	646636	18.32%	0.23%
$3.99	257298	7.29%	-0.03%
$4.99	199473	5.65%	0.05%
$5.99	98156	2.78%	0.03%
$6.99	65206	1.85%	-0.02%
$7.99	81222	2.30%	0.04%
$8.99	36940	1.05%	-0.01%
$9.99	282618	8.01%	-0.04%
$10.99	25158	0.71%	-0.01%
$11.99	48861	1.38%	0.78%
$12.99	19646	0.56%	0.01%
$13.99	13790	0.39%	0.01%
$14.99	12623	0.36%	-0.01%
$15.99	8799	0.25%	0.00%
$16.99	6584	0.19%	0.02%
$17.99	4028	0.11%	0.00%
$18.99	3729	0.11%	-0.03%
$19.99	14011	0.40%	-0.01%
$20.99	3055	0.09%	0.02%
$21.99	2716	0.08%	0.00%
$22.99	3408	0.10%	-0.01%
$23.99	2529	0.07%	-0.01%
$24.99	8625	0.24%	0.01%

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7/1/2015
Total	3,636,269
Prime	3,408,390
Under $10	2,893,481
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$0.99	438,047	12.05%	-0.07%
$1.99	149,355	4.11%	0.33%
$2.99	668161	18.37%	0.06%
$3.99	258653	7.11%	-0.17%
$4.99	207746	5.71%	0.06%
$5.99	101596	2.79%	0.01%
$6.99	67810	1.86%	0.02%
$7.99	84376	2.32%	0.02%
$8.99	37845	1.04%	-0.01%
$9.99	289102	7.95%	-0.05%
$10.99	26196	0.72%	0.01%
$11.99	22427	0.62%	-0.77%
$12.99	19075	0.52%	-0.03%
$13.99	13624	0.37%	-0.02%
$14.99	13060	0.36%	0.00%
$15.99	9642	0.27%	0.02%
$16.99	6313	0.17%	-0.01%
$17.99	4011	0.11%	0.00%
$18.99	3695	0.10%	0.00%
$19.99	14325	0.39%	0.00%
$20.99	2929	0.08%	-0.01%
$21.99	2748	0.08%	0.00%
$22.99	3227	0.09%	-0.01%
$23.99	2777	0.08%	0.00%
$24.99	8699	0.24%	-0.01%

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8/1/2015
Total	3,714,509
Prime	3,482,960
Under $10	2,969,714
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$0.99	447,216	12.04%	-0.01%
$1.99	156,515	4.21%	0.11%
$2.99	691,577	18.62%	0.24%
$3.99	265,456	7.15%	0.03%
$4.99	214,644	5.78%	0.07%
$5.99	105,611	2.84%	0.05%
$6.99	68,081	1.83%	-0.03%
$7.99	86,870	2.34%	0.02%
$8.99	40,426	1.09%	0.05%
$9.99	287,402	7.74%	-0.21%
$10.99	23,548	0.63%	-0.09%
$11.99	23,017	0.62%	0.00%
$12.99	18,115	0.49%	-0.04%
$13.99	14,202	0.38%	0.01%
$14.99	12,359	0.33%	-0.03%
$15.99	9,350	0.25%	-0.01%
$16.99	6,144	0.17%	-0.01%
$17.99	3,909	0.11%	-0.01%
$18.99	4,264	0.11%	0.01%
$19.99	11,919	0.32%	-0.07%
$20.99	2,398	0.06%	-0.02%
$21.99	2,184	0.06%	-0.02%
$22.99	2,995	0.08%	-0.01%
$23.99	2,527	0.07%	-0.01%
$24.99	8,789	0.24%	0.00%

—

9/1/2015
Total	3,799,009
Prime	3,575,587
Under $10	3,048,620
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$0.99	460,433	12.12%	0.08%
$1.99	163,765	4.31%	0.10%
$2.99	713,585	18.78%	0.17%
$3.99	271,457	7.15%	0.00%
$4.99	220,235	5.80%	0.02%
$5.99	107,732	2.84%	-0.01%
$6.99	71,462	1.88%	0.05%
$7.99	90,020	2.37%	0.03%
$8.99	43,273	1.14%	0.05%
$9.99	292,629	7.70%	-0.03%
$10.99	25,652	0.68%	0.04%
$11.99	25,134	0.66%	0.04%
$12.99	20,760	0.55%	0.06%
$13.99	14,980	0.39%	0.01%
$14.99	13,164	0.35%	0.01%
$15.99	9,768	0.26%	0.01%
$16.99	6,411	0.17%	0.00%
$17.99	4,233	0.11%	0.01%
$18.99	4,388	0.12%	0.00%
$19.99	12,052	0.32%	0.00%
$20.99	2,406	0.06%	0.00%
$21.99	2,259	0.06%	0.00%
$22.99	3,054	0.08%	0.00%
$23.99	2,478	0.07%	0.00%
$24.99	8,881	0.23%	0.00%

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10/1/2015
Total	3,875,694
Prime	3,652,166
Under $10	3,096,037
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$0.99	474,720	12.25%	0.13%
$1.99	162,067	4.18%	-0.13%
$2.99	724,100	18.68%	-0.10%
$3.99	275,960	7.12%	-0.03%
$4.99	224,835	5.80%	0.00%
$5.99	109,248	2.82%	-0.02%
$6.99	74,754	1.93%	0.05%
$7.99	94,819	2.45%	0.08%
$8.99	45,005	1.16%	0.02%
$9.99	296,328	7.65%	-0.06%
$10.99	25,111	0.65%	-0.03%
$11.99	30,727	0.79%	0.13%
$12.99	25,051	0.65%	0.10%
$13.99	18,487	0.48%	0.08%
$14.99	15,293	0.39%	0.05%
$15.99	11,620	0.30%	0.04%
$16.99	7,122	0.18%	0.02%
$17.99	4,682	0.12%	0.01%
$18.99	4,769	0.12%	0.01%
$19.99	12,630	0.33%	0.01%
$20.99	2,500	0.06%	0.00%
$21.99	2,322	0.06%	0.00%
$22.99	3,061	0.08%	0.00%
$23.99	2,601	0.07%	0.00%
$24.99	9,048	0.23%	0.00%

—

11/1/2015
Total	3,961,896
Prime	3,736,839
Under $10	3,166,691
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$0.99	477,484	12.05%	-0.20%
$1.99	171,645	4.33%	0.15%
$2.99	744,115	18.78%	0.10%
$3.99	287,094	7.25%	0.13%
$4.99	228,872	5.78%	-0.02%
$5.99	114,955	2.90%	0.08%
$6.99	76,282	1.93%	0.00%
$7.99	95,026	2.40%	-0.05%
$8.99	47,544	1.20%	0.04%
$9.99	300,632	7.59%	-0.06%
$10.99	24,650	0.62%	-0.03%
$11.99	30,071	0.76%	-0.03%
$12.99	24,814	0.63%	-0.02%
$13.99	17,711	0.45%	-0.03%
$14.99	31,880	0.80%	0.41%
$15.99	10,725	0.27%	-0.03%
$16.99	11,095	0.28%	0.10%
$17.99	4,946	0.12%	0.00%
$18.99	5,292	0.13%	0.01%
$19.99	14,110	0.36%	0.03%
$20.99	2,498	0.06%	0.00%
$21.99	2,175	0.05%	-0.01%
$22.99	3,268	0.08%	0.00%
$23.99	2,822	0.07%	0.00%
$24.99	9,338	0.24%	0.00%

—

12/1/2015
Total	4,046,825
Prime	3,818,499
Under $10	3,242,119
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$0.99	488,871	12.08%	0.03%
$1.99	178,434	4.41%	0.08%
$2.99	761,845	18.83%	0.04%
$3.99	295,623	7.31%	0.06%
$4.99	231,447	5.72%	-0.06%
$5.99	117,983	2.92%	0.01%
$6.99	78,154	1.93%	0.01%
$7.99	96,006	2.37%	-0.03%
$8.99	48,134	1.19%	-0.01%
$9.99	306,564	7.58%	-0.01%
$10.99	26,837	0.66%	0.04%
$11.99	31,817	0.79%	0.03%
$12.99	25,383	0.63%	0.00%
$13.99	16,898	0.42%	-0.03%
$14.99	32,155	0.79%	-0.01%
$15.99	11,052	0.27%	0.00%
$16.99	11,449	0.28%	0.00%
$17.99	5,032	0.12%	0.00%
$18.99	5,418	0.13%	0.00%
$19.99	13,957	0.34%	-0.01%
$20.99	2,368	0.06%	0.00%
$21.99	1,961	0.05%	-0.01%
$22.99	2,740	0.07%	-0.01%
$23.99	3,189	0.08%	0.01%
$24.99	9,551	0.24%	0.00%

—

1/1/2016
Total	4,168,071
Prime	3,940,070
Under $10	3,350,232
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$0.99	507,518	12.18%	0.10%
$1.99	183,403	4.40%	-0.01%
$2.99	778,631	18.68%	-0.14%
$3.99	300,934	7.22%	-0.09%
$4.99	238,292	5.72%	0.00%
$5.99	130,544	3.13%	0.22%
$6.99	83,229	2.00%	0.07%
$7.99	96,529	2.32%	-0.06%
$8.99	49,518	1.19%	0.00%
$9.99	312,840	7.51%	-0.07%
$10.99	28,841	0.69%	0.03%
$11.99	33,593	0.81%	0.02%
$12.99	25,988	0.62%	0.00%
$13.99	17,397	0.42%	0.00%
$14.99	34,036	0.82%	0.02%
$15.99	11,271	0.27%	0.00%
$16.99	10,996	0.26%	-0.02%
$17.99	5,415	0.13%	0.01%
$18.99	5,665	0.14%	0.00%
$19.99	14,722	0.35%	0.01%
$20.99	2,452	0.06%	0.00%
$21.99	2,187	0.05%	0.00%
$22.99	2,893	0.07%	0.00%
$23.99	3,404	0.08%	0.00%
$24.99	9,742	0.23%	0.00%

—

2/1/2016
Total	4,260,301
Prime	4,038,776
Under $10	3,440,910
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$0.99	512,549	12.03%	-0.15%
$1.99	191,386	4.49%	0.09%
$2.99	792,734	18.61%	-0.07%
$3.99	308,632	7.24%	0.02%
$4.99	242,543	5.69%	-0.02%
$5.99	132,304	3.11%	-0.03%
$6.99	85,593	2.01%	0.01%
$7.99	99,909	2.35%	0.03%
$8.99	51,172	1.20%	0.01%
$9.99	319,532	7.50%	-0.01%
$10.99	29,426	0.69%	0.00%
$11.99	34,581	0.81%	0.01%
$12.99	25,742	0.60%	-0.02%
$13.99	17,813	0.42%	0.00%
$14.99	34,803	0.82%	0.00%
$15.99	11,685	0.27%	0.00%
$16.99	11,390	0.27%	0.00%
$17.99	5,551	0.13%	0.00%
$18.99	5,916	0.14%	0.00%
$19.99	15,640	0.37%	0.01%
$20.99	2,539	0.06%	0.00%
$21.99	2,281	0.05%	0.00%
$22.99	3,141	0.07%	0.00%
$23.99	3,529	0.08%	0.00%
$24.99	9,940	0.23%	0.00%

—

3/1/2016
Total	4,356,852
Prime	4,133,304
Under $10	3,522,742
Price Point	Count	Percentage	Diff
$0.99	530,011	12.16%	0.13%
$1.99	194,430	4.46%	-0.03%
$2.99	803,596	18.44%	-0.16%
$3.99	328,794	7.55%	0.30%
$4.99	250,467	5.75%	0.06%
$5.99	139,413	3.20%	0.09%
$6.99	90,148	2.07%	0.06%
$7.99	105,630	2.42%	0.08%
$8.99	53,062	1.22%	0.02%
$9.99	325,552	7.47%	-0.03%
$10.99	30,720	0.71%	0.01%
$11.99	36,011	0.83%	0.01%
$12.99	29,082	0.67%	0.06%
$13.99	17,195	0.39%	-0.02%
$14.99	36,225	0.83%	0.01%
$15.99	11,476	0.26%	-0.01%
$16.99	14,123	0.32%	0.06%
$17.99	5,976	0.14%	0.01%
$18.99	6,069	0.14%	0.00%
$19.99	16,203	0.37%	0.00%
$20.99	2,564	0.06%	0.00%
$21.99	2,300	0.05%	0.00%
$22.99	3,318	0.08%	0.00%
$23.99	3,580	0.08%	0.00%
$24.99	10,049	0.23%	0.00%

Summary

Generally, this was a good month. Prices overall looked good. There was more content, and more free books to borrow and own. The New York Times bestseller hardback fiction equivalents did go up in average price, though. The dichotomy there is likely due in part to the bestseller equivalents being tradpubbed (traditionally published) for the most part, while books in the Kindle store increasingly is not.

Older data were drawn using http://www.jungle-search.com, newer data with http://www.ereaderiq.com (from the same people). There are a number of possible sources of errors (eRi, Amazon, me), but these are probably pretty good.

• The free books referenced here are from the Kindle store: there are many other sources for free books
• My search for textbooks definitely has false positives (books that aren’t really textbooks). I search for -domain (to eliminate public domain titles, which would be older books, generally) textbook. That would find a book about textbooks, for example
• I searched for “Spanish edition” to find Spanish language books. That has some false positives as well
• I look at price percentages of books in the range of one penny to fifty dollars, to eliminate freebies and limit textbooks
• The price point analysis is for books at that specific price: it does not represent a range of prices
• I compared the percentage of price points in the Price Point Analysis when I showed the difference…not the number of books
• This information is based on what a United States customer sees

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Just published! The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip!

Just published! The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip

This is one of the very rare cases where I’m publishing basically the same post here and in another blog of mine, The Measured Circle. I thought it was worth putting both places, and I thought you’d be interested. One of the things in this project is linking to books (or Goodreads and other pages). I’m thinking you’ll notice one difference right away in my writing below…I use the editorial “we”). 😉 I don’t know why I started that at TMC: I don’t do it here in ILMK…

We are very excited to announce the publication today (Leap Day) of a new project,

The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip

at The History Project!

You’ll be able to learn about (and in many cases, read/watch/listen to) geek friendly content.

To introduce it, I’m going to do what I call a “splinterview”: I’m going to interview myself about the project. As with all of my splinterviews, I haven’t thought about what I’m going to say ahead of time, and won’t substantively edit it afterwards (if I catch typos, I’ll correct those…just like I would with an interview with someone else).

Let’s get started!

Q. Your new project, The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip was published. What is it? A book, a blog…?

A. Well, it’s something different. It’s really more of a timeline, but much more interactive than that usually means.

Q. What do you mean by interactive?

A. When people use it, they’ll often be able to click on a link to watch a movie or TV show, read a book, listen to a radio show, that sort of thing.

Q. Will they pay for that?

A. Not me [laughs]. In many cases, I’m linking to public domain sources where there is no charge at all, but it’s possible they’ll see ads there. In others, I may link to a place that helps them find something where they might be paying. For example, for in-copyright movies & TV shows, I typically link to JustWatch.com, which is a search engine for streaming services. It might show them that they can watch the movie at Amazon Prime or Netflix or Hulu, for example. The user may be paying a monthly fee for that, but they won’t pay more for watching this specific movie.

Q. What about books? Are you only linking to subscription services there?

A. I generally link to Goodreads, which does have links where you can buy books. I’m not opposed to people buying things, even if that has become increasingly unpopular. What I don’t want to do is only link people to a single place to buy something. I don’t want it to feel like an ad, like I’m trying to sell them something.

Q. So, you aren’t making money on the Geek Time Trip?

A. Not directly. I did get permission from The History Project to link to my The Measured Circle blog, for example. It’s possible somebody will go from TMCGTT to The Measured Circle, and then do something there which might result in me getting some money.

Q. TMCGTT?

A. The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip.

Q. You mentioned getting permission from The History Project. Describe your relationship with them, and what they are.

A. Well, “getting permission” sounds too strong, really. I think everybody has that permission [to link to their websites]…I just asked them and they let me know it was okay. I’m not really connected with them, I’ve just had some correspondence with them as a user. What happened was that I’d heard about them…they’ve gotten some mainstream publicity. I think I first saw it in a Flipboard story. Anyway, I made a timeline for a relative as a birthday present. They happened to contact me for user feedback, and I said quite a bit [laughs]. I had a couple of conversations with them, mostly by e-mail. While they do seem like a startup, although a solid one, it seemed like a good place to do something public, and that they would (knock wood) be around for a while.

Q. What makes them seem like a startup?

A. Oh, there are some interface things, for example, that I expect to mature over time. I also see them making incremental improvements. I can feel the energy, enthusiasm, and commitment that can go with being a startup.

Q. Why do you think they’ll be a lasting company?

A. I mentioned the mainstream publicity…Forbes, CNN, to name two. I can tell that they know what they are doing from the website. Getting that coverage and having something that works technically is a good combination…it suggests both funding and some expertise, and at least some popular resonance for the idea.

Q. That’s probably enough background; let’s talk about what people will see when they go to The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip.

A. Sorry, one more thing first. There was a hiccup early on…I asked a question through the website, and didn’t get an answer. I’m big on Customer Service, and that made me hesitant even to do the birthday present. I could see that some big people were using it, like Jewel, so I decided to go ahead. When I brought that up in my user feedback, which I think was just a random thing, I got a personal and very strong and satisfying response. They apologized, and explained what happened, and made it right. Nobody gets everything right all the time…what matters is how you deal with your errors.

Q. And you were satisfied?

A. Yes.

Q. Okay. So, what will be the experience for someone going to the Geek Time Trip?

A. It’s a timeline, first. They’ll see events on a chronological line.

Q. What sort of events?

A. Oh, when an actor or author is born, when a movie was released, when a book was published…something specific that happened. They can then click on that event, and that’s where I would say this starts getting really useful and fun. Visitors will find links to the content, but also to references…Wikia entries, YouTube and Google news searches, lots of things.

Q. Wikipedia?

A. Wikia…although I did Wikipedia sometimes, too. Wikia is really a fan-based site, with many wikis for different  properties.

Q. Were you always able to find links to the content?

A. No. I link when I can, but I don’t want to exclude something just because I can’t link to an online option.

Q. How do you choose what to put into The Geek Time Trip?

A. In this early stage, it’s a bit random. I could literally list thousands of items I’d like to have in TMCGTT offhand,with no research. I think that having the content is a good thing, one of the attractions. So, I’ve been going through some sites that have content, getting things there, and then rotating in other things I want to mention.

Q. Do you mind saying what sites?

A. Not at all! I name them in TMCGTT. I want them to get credit for the hard work they’ve done, and I want to drive people to the sites. For example, I use The Digital Comic Museum. That’s a great site! You can read or download public domain comics there, often obscure.

Q. How do you know they are public domain, not in copyright?

A. That’s a great question! I can’t know for sure…in many cases, it’s hard to research a copyright. What I do is get a sense of whether or not I think the site make a good faith effort to protect people’s rights. I do know something about copyright, as a layperson. I write about it fairly often in my most popular blog, I Love My Kindle.  I care a lot about copyright, so I’ll do what I can to get that right.

Q. How long does it take you to create an entry?

A. That’s one of the things. It takes a few minutes, I’d say. I do some research, put in the links…I’ll look for an unusual site. I would have loved to have thousands of entries on go live day, but there just wasn’t time.

Q. You are busy, right? Two blogs, books, and you have a full time job?

A. Three blogs, actually, but who’s counting? [laughs]

Q. I Love My Kindle, The Measured Circle, and?

A. 221B Blog Street. That doesn’t take me much time, though…I just republish the original public domain Sherlock Holmes material, either a chapter or a short story a day, in order. I just like having serialized literature available, which is the way many things we now consider classics were published…and Holmes is great!

Q. How do you have time to add another big project like The Geek Time Trip? Won’t your other projects suffer?

A. I can’t say there will be absolutely no impact, but things have changed. I haven’t really worked intently on a book for some time…ILMK takes up the vast majority of my writing time and energy, and that will continue to be the case. In the past couple of years, I’ve had another change which is helping…I only sleep about four and a half to five and half hours a night. That was a weird big change: I went suddenly from going to sleep by nine and waking up at five, which is eight hours, to waking up between 1:30 and 2:30 AM.

Q. That’s very early!

A. Yes, and somehow, it takes me six hours to get ready for work in the morning! [laughs] Not really, but I do exercise and get writing done. My baseline for exercise is ninety minutes a day, although I generally do more.

Q. Aren’t people supposed to get eight hours sleep?

A. I’ve actually checked with my doctor on it…twice. My doctor thinks it is okay…different people need different amounts of sleep. I don’t fall asleep during the day, and in my job, if I had cognitive decline, I’d know it.

Q. What is your job?

A. I’m a trainer. I work with medical people, so I’m pretty in tune with what’s risky behavior. I wouldn’t mind getting more sleep, but I don’t miss it and seem to be doing fine.

Q. Let’s get back to the Time Trip. When you pick events, what kind of impact do you want them to have on people?

A. I want different reactions. I want to waken lost memories…have somebody say, “I remember that!” I want people to be surprised when they encounter something they had no idea existed…and to hopefully enjoy it, of course. I’d also like it to be useful…I can see someone looking something up on it, and returning to the same event to check the Google news search link.

Q. How often will you add things?

A. I figure I’ll add a few things a week, and then have some binges sometimes where I do more.

Q. Do you have any help?

A. I wouldn’t mind that in the future. Right now, the moderation tools at The History Project aren’t robust enough for me to just open it up to everybody. I need to be able to review something, to make sure it isn’t just advertising, wildly inaccurate, or inconsistent with what else is there. Some of what I’m doing could be done pretty easily, at least basically adding an event…those public domain comics at DCM  don’t take a whole lot of decision making, outside of picking the comics. For now, it’s going to be just me. That doesn’t mean I don’t want suggestions or corrections, though! I’ve set up a page where people can comment to do just that, The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip. Even at go live, I had Samurai Pizza Cats, which was suggested to me by someone in the family.

Q. How will you measure the success of The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip?

A. If I have fun doing it and have the time, I’ll probably keep it going. I’d be encouraged if I hear from people that they like it. I would love for it to get mentioned in more mainstream sources…I’ve been a subscriber to Entertainment Weekly for many years, and appearing there would be fun. Getting mentioned in The Mary Sue would also be a measure of success for me. If it brings more people to my other works, great. The main thing, though, is people getting something out of it…that’s what makes me the happiest.

Q. Anything else you want to say?

A. Just that I’ve been having fun with it! There has definitely been some trial and error, and I found some techniques and style which helped. I’ve done a little bit of writing in it, but I’ve been keeping my opinions out of the entries. I just hope it’s a trip people find worth taking.

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Today’s KDD: up to 80% off Oscar Movie Tie-ins

Today’s KDD: up to 80% off Oscar Movie Tie-ins

Today’s

Kindle Daily Deal (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*)

is up to 80% off each of eighteen books which were the basis of Oscar-nominated movies.

There are some great books in this group!

• Argo by Antonio Mendez: won Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing. Also nominated for Supporting Actor (Alan Arkin), Score, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing | $1.99 at time of writing | 4.3 stars out of 5 | 380 customer reviews
• The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman: won Best Actor Adrien Brody, Best Director, Adapted Screenplay. Also nominated for Cinematography, Costume Design, Film Editing | $2.99 | 4.8 stars | 279 reviews
• 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northrup: won Best Picture, Supporting Actress (Lupita Nyong’o), Adapted Screenplay. Also nominated for Lead Actor (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Supporting Actor (Michael Fassbender), Directing, Film Editing, Costume Design, Production Design | $1.99 | 4.6 stars |3,423 reviews
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel: won Directing, Score, Visual Effects, Score. Also nominated for Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Song, Production Design | $2.99 | 4.3 stars | 6,377 reviews
• Trumbo by Bruce Cook: nominated for Lead Actor (Bryan Cranston) | $2.99 | 4.4 stars | 19 reviews
• The Hateful Eight by Quentin Tarantino: nominated for Supporting Actress (Jennifer Jason Leigh), Cinematography, Score | $2.99 | 3.7 stars | 19 reviews
• The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick: won for Lead Actress (Jennifer Lawrence). Also nominated for Best Picture, Lead Actor (Bradley Cooper), Supporting Actor (Robert DeNiro), Supporting Actress (Jacki Weaver), Directing, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing | $2.99 | 4.4 stars | 3,290 reviews
• Oil! (There Will Be Blood) by Upton Sinclair: Lead Actor (Daniel Day-Lewis), Cinematography. Also nominated for Best Picture, Directing, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, Sound Editing, Art Direction | $1.99 | 4.0 stars | 87 customer reviews
• All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren: won (for the 1949 version…the 2006 version was not nominated for an Oscar) Best Picture, Lead Actor (Broderick Crawford), Supporting Actress (Mercedes McCambridge). Also nominated for Supporting Actor (John Ireland), Director, Screenplay, Film Editing | $2.99 | 4.3 stars | 390 reviews
• Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers. Won Best Actress (Julie Andrews), Film Editing, Visual Effects, Original Song (Chim Chim Cher-ee), Original Score. Also nominated for Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography (Color), Art Direction (Color), Costume Design (Color), Score | 4.4 stars | 597 reviews
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: the 2013 version won for Costume Design. Also nominated for Cinematography, Score, Production Design | $1.99 | 4.5 stars | 162 reviews
• The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris: won Best Picture, Lead Actor (Anthony Hopkins), Lead Actress (Jodie Foster), Director, Adapted Screenplay. Also nominated for Sound, Film Editing | $2.99 | 4.7 stars | 605 reviews
• Betrayal (basis of Spotlight) by The Boston Globe: nominated for Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Mark Ruffalo), Supporting Actress (Rachel McAdams), Directing, Original Screenplay, Film Editing | $2.99 | 4.4 stars | 45 reviews
• Philomena by Martin Sixsmith: nominated for Best Picture, Lead Actress (Judi Dench), Score, Adapted Screenplay | $1.99 | 4.0 stars | 1, 402 reviews
• The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort: nominated for Best Picture, Lead Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio), Supporting Actor (Jonah Hill), Director, Adapted Screenplay | $1.99 | 3.8 stars | 1,081 reviews
• Room by Emma Donoghue: nominated for Best Picture, Lead Actress (Brie Larson), Directing, Adapted Screenplay (by the book’s  author)
• Sideways by Rex Pickett: won Adapted Screenplay. Also nominated for Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Thomas Haden Church), Supporting Actress (Virginia Madsen), Directing | $2.99 | 4.0 stars | 172 reviews
• The Hours by Michael Cunningham: won Best Actress (Nicole Kidman). Also nominated for Best Picture Supporting Actor (Ed Harris), Best Actress (Julianne Moore). Also nominated for Best Director, Adapted Screenplay, Costume Design, Film Editing, Score | $2.99 | 4.0 stars | 653 reviews

Definitely some excellent reads, and some books here that would make good gifts (you can delay a Kindle store book gift’s delivery date for the appropriate gift-giving occasion.

There is still time if you want to participate in

2016 BOPMadness (Bufo’s Oscar Prediction Madness)

Enjoy!

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* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get.  Shop ’til you help!  

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