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Liberty Hardt's avatar

Dang, I wish this was later… my husband and I have an alternative history book we’re releasing via Kickstarter in a few months!

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Hans G. Schantz's avatar

We do big Based Book Sales quarterly and smaller niche sales like this in the off months. Subscribe and follow us to stay in the loop. Our next big sales are:

Summer Based Book Sale: Wednesday, June 18, 2025, 12:00 AM PDT through Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 12:00 AM PDT.

BasedCon Based Book Sale: Wednesday, September 3, 2025, 12:00 AM PDT through Wednesday, September 10, 2025, 12:00 AM PDT.

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Sara Light-Waller's avatar

Thanks for having me in the sale! I appreciate the chance to join with other cool authors and discover new books. :)

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Hans G. Schantz's avatar

Our pleasure. Thanks for participating.

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Chance Paladin's avatar

Grabbed some, love the idea!

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Yves Najman's avatar

I live in France and it seems I cannot purchase from .com version of Amazon, and .fr site has not the same kind of discount...

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Hans G. Schantz's avatar

Amazon only allows authors to do discounts on their .com and .co.uk websites. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Yves Najman's avatar

I just discovered that in France there is a law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_Law) that mandate a fixed price for books...

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D.J. Schreffler's avatar

First thought: Focusing on a single genre narrows things down, and it's not too difficult to navigate through everything!

Lowers the cost of browsing and searching.

I'd enjoy more smaller/more focused BBSs through the year than a couple giant ones.

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Hans G. Schantz's avatar

If this goes well, we’ll do it again, targeting a different genre.

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D.J. Schreffler's avatar

I picked up four books from this. So now you have a bit of anecdote!

Enough anecdotes, and you have data!

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Michael Finney's avatar

I believe the plan is to put more small listings together if this one is successful, though I do like the “all hands on deck” seasonal sales as well.

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V. A. Boston's avatar

Same. People can see what they "missed" in the smaller sales while also checking out genres they would usually pass by in the larger ones. Perhaps it's counter intuitive, but I also think seeing how big the seasonal ones are can potentially drum up support for the smaller sales, as well.

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Michael Finney's avatar

Yeah, that's probably true - for this collection, I really tried to have a lot of first-time inclusions to the sale. Obviously, other people will curate future genre sales so how that is shaped will be up to them. Just glad I got the chance to give it a shot.

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Erik Waag's avatar

Fantastic!

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