Topic: What time of day do you buy books online

For those of you who purchase books online via a Kindle, Nook, iPhone, etc., what time of day do you think you do your purchase? I'm looking at some data from my campaigns and it looks like the biggest spike in sales is between 8-10 in the evening. I'm wondering if this squares with your personal experience.

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Wouldn't a lot of that depend on where a person is? 2000-2200 in Ohio is 0200-0400 in the UK and 1600-1800 in California?

(I'm kidding. I know you mean local time wherever you are.)

BIll

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3 Reply by Mark S. Moore (edited by Mark S. Moore 2017-11-21 16:54:52)

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I tend to when the mood strikes, or when I know a book is coming out I'm interested in - My wife though, who is a voracious purveyor of romance novels tends to in the evenings on weekends. I think this is a time for a lot of people where they can divest themselves of work.

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I don't care about the time. I buy when I've just finished a book or when I hear about a good one. I usually download a sample first.

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Re: What time of day do you buy books online

cobber wrote:

For those of you who purchase books online via a Kindle, Nook, iPhone, etc., what time of day do you think you do your purchase? I'm looking at some data from my campaigns and it looks like the biggest spike in sales is between 8-10 in the evening. I'm wondering if this squares with your personal experience.

Any time on the weekend...or late at night when my last book ended during the weekday.

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6 Reply by j p lundstrom (edited by j p lundstrom 2017-11-22 04:28:17)

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I buy books in batches, when I've finished reading the last book in my current batch, or when those I have left are serious or look too daunting and all I want is to be entertained. It's 9:00 pm and I just finished placing my order for this evening's and tomorrow's reading.

I'm retired, so when I'm not gardening, quilting, baking, canning, or writing, I read. I typically finish 1-3 books a day. I enjoyed the recent discussion about pricing your books and/or enlisting with Kindle Unlimited--I appreciate both cheap and free books. Before Kindle, I was a lifelong fan of the public library.

When ebooks were almost unheard of, Steven King published his book for free. And I would never have met Harry Bosch or Jack Reacher if I hadn't found great deals. Those free or cheap books are meant to get the reader hooked on an author. After all, you can't expect a reader to shell out 29.99 or even 10.99 for an author they never heard of.

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