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Originally Posted by AshW
Just checked BooksonBoard and it's currently around $45 there too. So probably not a typo  That's ridiculous, especially given the Kindle price. I'm sure it's not the fault of either of those sites, but if it's because of some deal between the publisher and Amazon that really sucks.
The list price is $50 at Sony Connect as well, $50 at ebooks.com. Direct from Random House? $50 also. |
It's possible that a mistake made by the publisher is being propagated through the system. (Of course, it's also possible that an idiotic decision by the publisher is being propagated through the system.)
An illustration (not price-related): If you go to Amazon and
search for my name you will see two books with noticeably amateurish-looking covers. (From a Changeling Star and Down the Stream of Stars.) Those aren't the real covers. Those were
going to be the real covers of the ereads editions until I contacted the artist of the original Bantam editions and asked for permission to reuse the Bantam art. But somehow those godawful covers made it into a database (this is like 7
years ago) and propagated into the system, and I have tried over and over to get them corrected, to no avail. (If you click my ereads link in my sig line, you'll see the actual covers.) So this sort of thing does happen. And that's not even the only example from my own books.
Re whether Amazon is taking a hit on the lower prices: I have no insider information on that, obviously, but the discounting for ebooks does not necessarily follow the same model as the discounting for treebooks (percent off suggested retail)--and even with the treebook model, there are all kinds of special promotional discounts that can be offered to large retailers moving large volume (with the royalty to the author dropping precipitously on such discounts).