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Originally Posted by shalym
It must be a much different market here in the Northeast US, because I just checked, and both Coke and Pepsi are on sale at one grocery store this week.
ANYWAY...the whole point of this side discussion was to point out that, unlike e-books, prices on other products are NOT controlled by manufacturers, but by the retailer. This is even true of paper books.
Other products may have *suggested* retail prices, but they are just that...suggestions. Retailers are free to sell for whatever price they want. Yes...there are exceptions to that rule, and it seems as if Apple is one of the exceptions, but even with Apple products I can buy an iPod Nano for $129 from Walmart even though it's $149 from the Apple Store, so it seems that stores are *allowed* to discount, it's just that most don't.
Shari
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Now as per products, I know Amazon sets the price on their products.
Now as to Walmart, you might want to check the version of that Nano. I know sometimes Walmart gets a slightly different products than say Best Buy.
Now back to the original topic,
Have we figured out if all ebook sales are down or just the ones saying their sales are down.