OMG! JNC’s got a sale going on!
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Already buy the series I really like.
Would have preferred a coin sale instead.
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@SomeOldGuy Honestly there's only 2 ebooks I'm considering on this sale. One I just forgot to buy when it came out and one series I've been on the fence about.
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@Village-Idiot said in OMG! JNC’s got a sale going on!:
Already buy the series I really like.
Would have preferred a coin sale instead.
And that's probably why they did what they did, and I'm guessing they were right to do so.
They didn't want to boost sales in general, which is what a coin sale would do; they wanted to boost sales for those titles in particular. Maybe Hobby Japan offered them a deal, maybe they needed to boost Hobby Japan sales to keep smooth relations with them; maybe they got some of those titles and needed to boost sales on them to break even. (Wouldn't surprise me a bit, given what I think of some of those titles.)
In any case, it's pretty obvious they were trying to boost sales of one set of titles, not the whole line-up.
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@Travis-Butler said in OMG! JNC’s got a sale going on!:
And that's probably why they did what they did, and I'm guessing they were right to do so.
They didn't want to boost sales in general, which is what a coin sale would do; they wanted to boost sales for those titles in particular. Maybe Hobby Japan offered them a deal, maybe they needed to boost Hobby Japan sales to keep smooth relations with them; maybe they got some of those titles and needed to boost sales on them to break even. (Wouldn't surprise me a bit, given what I think of some of those titles.)
In any case, it's pretty obvious they were trying to boost sales of one set of titles, not the whole line-up.And it worked! I picked up a couple series I was on the fence with, but there were two series that weren't even on my radar.
But hey, there is a nice discount, part 1 is available to read for each volume and the comments and reviews on the discussion boards for the volume are way more useful then a typical short review blurb on Amazon. And since the sale is ending this month.
I got way too many books this time around.
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A sale can also help drive customers who otherwise only buy at, say, Amazon, towards their own platform. They already have the premium contents for thwt, but yhe more incentives the better.
In the end, I'm a simple guy. You show me a sale, and I end up buying 22 volumes. All from ongoing series I like, so now I feel much more motivated to keep buying the next volumes even at full price. -
I bought v1s for four series (Hookup Hiccups, Haibara, Hero and Sage, and Nia Liston) and am now buying my way through Hookup Hiccups.
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No need to speculate: I'll just tell you.
The goal of this sale (and any future sales like this) is to get our existing audience to try out some of our new"ish" series that they might not have tried yet, to help boost the ongoing sales of those series
Also, with the low price of volume 1s on places like Amazon, maybe to get picked up a bit by their algorithms and get some new people to try out light novels more (but if that was the main goal we'd put our most popular series on sale instead of our mid range series).
You might also notice we didn't put some older/very long series on sale, since we think the barrier to even try a 20+ long series is an additional hurdle that we are planning something different to try and incentivize in the future.
As for people holding off until books are on sale? Maaaybe. But this is the first sale of this type JNC has ever done in the entire 7+ year history of the company so... yeah. Another hobby Japan sale won't be coming around for quite a while I would suspect.
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I suspect there would have been some interesting technical challenges with offering this type of sale while we were on credits... Special sale on now, buy vol 1 for only 0.7 credits, limited offer, while supplies last.
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purchased "Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf!" as recent anime release reminded me that I liked this series and wasn't on catchup (and I have a bank of coins waiting to be spent)....now if we could just get a way to spend coins on physical releases...
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Now some Overlap titles are on sale in March!
Looks like I’m buying a few volumes of The Conqueror From a Dying Kingdom that I haven’t previously purchased.
I’ve read some or all (so far) of four other series that are on sale, but I didn’t/haven’t enjoyed them enough to buy them even when on sale. I read 4.5 books from one of the series, and never want to see it again. ^_^
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Huh. It’s probably been going on since the start of the month, but I’ve only just now noticed that JNC has a TO Books sale going on. I don’t recall seeing it mentioned around here in the forum, and I apparently don’t get to the front page or the main JNC series page very often. When checking a book’s part/chapter count, I generally go direct to that series’s page via the calendar, and the sale banner doesn’t appear on those pages.
I couldn’t really take advantage of the sale, since I’ve been buying most of their books that I want to read (No! Noble on the Brink! Bad book! Bad book! Go stand in the corner!) as soon they’re up for preorder. I did go ahead and buy Mercedes v1.
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@Ingraman I believe the TO Books sale is rather recent, like as of this week - definitely not since the start of this month. That being said, I could also be wrong - my perception of time can be quite erroneous at times
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@Geolykt said in OMG! JNC’s got a sale going on!:
@Ingraman I believe the TO Books sale is rather recent, like as of this week - definitely not since the start of this month. That being said, I could also be wrong - my perception of time can be quite erroneous at times
That’s entirely possible. I think that most of the previous sales started at the beginning of a month, so I was thinking that the same had probably happened again this time and I’d just missed all the clues. :)
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Huh… A new sale started today. Micro Magazine? Who’re they? Ah. The Invincible Little Lady is the only title of theirs that I’ve read/am reading. Nope. I’ve read Making Magic, too. Not sure if I’ll buy TILL, but I won’t bother with MM. Do I get Late-Start Tamer? I’ve been somewhat enjoying the manga, so I’ll probably get at least the first LN. :)
