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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
It's utterly vile for the publisher to determine the price, because it should be up to the retailer. When the retailer slashes the price, it's also utterly vile because... the self-publisher ought to control the price.  |
Retailer is free to change the price, as long as it pays royalties from the list price. This is not what is happening here.
If the author got his 70% of the 2.99 list price, I am pretty sure there would be no complaints.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Amazon's price changing system is totally automated. If it reduced the price, it's because their search system really did (or thought it did) find it cheaper elsewhere. There's no human intervention in the system at all.
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According to the article, the price WAS $0.99, at some point in the past. The author changed it to higher price, but some vendors are slow to update the price, and also Amazon bot took into account price from few weeks before.
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
[Walmart]...and it's a really scary place to go. At least the one near me is.
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Well, some time ago somebody here pointed me to
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/photos and I couldn't believe my eyes ;-)