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KarlB · 08-15-2009, 12:47 PM

Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection (the most recent edition, for 2008) has just been released as a Kindle book, and there's a bit of a funny story about the price.

I'm signed up with Mysteria to let me know when books on my Amazon wish list become available as Kindle books. They notified me on Aug. 13 that Years Best #26 was available. So I hop on over to Amazon and promptly choke on my latte when I see the price: $32.00! This is compared to the paperback price of $14.93 and the hardcover price of $26.40. So I mutter curses and go to Zoolert, where you can sign up to be notified when a particular Kindle book's price falls below some amount that you set. I set my "tracking price" to $20.00 -- still too high, but not insane. The very next day, Zoolert got back to me with a notification that the price of this book had gone below the amount I set. In fact, it had gone down to $9.99, where it remains.

So I guess the moral of the story is that Amazon sometimes does funny things with Kindle book prices, and that the Zoolert service (free) is a good idea if you see a price that looks out of line.

08-15-2009, 12:47 PM	#73
KarlB Enthusiast Posts: 36 Karma: 40 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: clay tablet	Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection (the most recent edition, for 2008) has just been released as a Kindle book, and there's a bit of a funny story about the price. I'm signed up with Mysteria to let me know when books on my Amazon wish list become available as Kindle books. They notified me on Aug. 13 that Years Best #26 was available. So I hop on over to Amazon and promptly choke on my latte when I see the price: $32.00! This is compared to the paperback price of $14.93 and the hardcover price of $26.40. So I mutter curses and go to Zoolert, where you can sign up to be notified when a particular Kindle book's price falls below some amount that you set. I set my "tracking price" to $20.00 -- still too high, but not insane. The very next day, Zoolert got back to me with a notification that the price of this book had gone below the amount I set. In fact, it had gone down to $9.99, where it remains. So I guess the moral of the story is that Amazon sometimes does funny things with Kindle book prices, and that the Zoolert service (free) is a good idea if you see a price that looks out of line.