I'm not sure this author actually reads the 0.99 books from Amazon. I read quite a few of them (kicked a bad video game habit), and it appears many authors of t

I'm not sure this author actually reads the 0.99 books from Amazon. I read quite a few of them (kicked a bad video game habit), and it appears many authors of the SciFi multi-volume publish book 1 at either free or 0.99, with the rest of the books in the series around the 2.99 price point. Like apps, I will buy almost anything at the 0.99 price point. But at 2.99, I'd probably skip the first book unless I had a recommendation, and for all of these "long tail" authors, there is little chance of me discovering them. But with this pricing model, the top-100 books are always churning up a few new authors every week for me to check out. It's very interesting because it is so different from the app or standalone-book models.