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Originally Posted by jgaiser
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The price differential is minimal - about a dollar - and the customer reaction is grimly amusing.
What's at play is that Amazon's deal with the publishers requires them to charge the stated price for the ebook, but they can discount the hardcover as they like, and chose to discount the hardcover to a price level
below the ebook.
We can expect to see conversations between Amazon and the publisher. We can also see future such efforts taking care to
not discount the hardcover price
below the book price.
But two titles doesn't constitute a trend, and the only thing significant about this is the hysterical response it generated.
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Dennis