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Old 12-07-2014, 07:25 AM   #56
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht View Post
Amazon was not selling those NYT best sellers in a discounting vacuum. If you had gone to Target, Sam's Club, B&N, Borders, etc., you would have seen the $25 HC discounted to something like $15-17 dollars. At the same time, a non NYT bestseller might not be discounted at all, or discounted by a much lower amount, and the ebook may well have been priced the same as the HC.
Fall of 2009, Wal-Mart started a bestseller price war that Target joined in that drove bestseller hardcovers (wholesale model) under $9.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/bo...rice.html?_r=0

Amazon price matched all the way, although Walmart got the last word...by a cent.

It was not the first time.
Nor the last.

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