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Originally Posted by dhbailey
This morning A Thousand Splendid Suns is 12.99 -- I didn't check it out yesterday, so perhaps it dropped in the middle of the night.
I wonder if Sony Connect prices are automatically linked to something from the publishers and the publishers can't make up their minds as to the prices while Amazon isn't worrying so much about making a profit as they are worried about garnering sales for the Kindle.
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I think you are probably right for certain books but not all of them. Amazon seems to have $9.99 pegged as a price for many new releases/best sellers, but not all. Unfortunately for the consumer, Sony hasn't done the same. You are correct that Sony's price on A Thousand Splendid Suns dropped from around $18 to $12.99 shortly after my post (and emails)--the same thing happened with the Follett book. However, Amazon's price bounced from around $18 down to around $13 several days prior. Apparently, Amazon's system is picking up price changes more sensitively than Sony and I agree that Amazon is wiling to absorb more of the fluctuations than Sony.