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Ninety-nine cent full-length book. eBook readers, have you come across one of these before? Have you bought one? Have you read one?<\/p>\n

The price of these books is the root of many conversations on self-published forums. Should they? Shouldn’t they? Will it help to increase sales? And if it does, will the sizable drop in revenue make it worth lowering the price of the book to .99.<\/p>\n

So those are the thoughts of authors attempting to get your<\/em> attention by making their book attractive enough for you to try. But as a reader, can you be lured into buying an ebook at this price point? Would you buy a book by an unknown author–unpublished on the most part–for the price of .99? Or are you one of those readers who would give that book a gimlet eye in the belief that anything selling that cheap can’t possibly be good?\u00a0 What would move you to purchase a .99 book?<\/p>\n

**You may select up to 2 answers<\/strong><\/p>\n

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