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Old 02-23-2012, 10:33 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by nogle View Post
Tempest, meet teapot. The author is still getting paid the same by Amazon. So why does he care how the retailer is pricing his book?
Because bots are driving the pricing - not people.

On the reverse side - there was a thread here previously in which a bot system drove up an out of print DTB to over $73k (I think that number is correct) in a bot vs bot pricing war.

And guess what? None of those bots were attached to companies/people who actually had the book for sale.

So, I can understand his frustration - how is a computer algorithm dictating my pricing structure?
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