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Originally Posted by tompe
Because they have seen the effect of it. I think Amazon recently started to automatically detect that the book was sold to a lower price at other sellers.
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Not recently, no. They've been doing that for many months - since early in 2010. There are quite a few threads in the Amazon DTP community forums discussing it. Those authors who already publish both with Amazon and Smashwords and who are concerned about avoiding having Amazon discount their book in the Kindle bookstore already have prices set at $2.99 or above in Smashwords. Those who aren't concerned about it and who have prices set lower than $2.99 with Smashwords are unlikely, I think, to suddenly change that when nothing material has changed.
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In fact, those who increased their Smashwords list price to ensure that, if their book was discounted by, for example, Barnes & Noble, it didn't go below the Kindle list price and affect their royalties, are more likely to
lower their Smashwords list price again, if they can be sure the book won't be listed at a lower price by another retailer such as B&N.
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