How could any market possibly survive where sellers are not only allowed but want to sell the same product at different prices? Where the customer's judgment of what something is worth paying for actually influences the cost of the transaction? No industry could possibly exist in such a chaotic and frenzied environment! It's madness, I tell you! MADNESS!
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Booksellers Engage in Price Competition. Publisher Shocked. | The Passive Voice
From book publisher and editor Peter Osnos via The Atlantic: Depending on where you buy [economist Paul Krugman's] new book, there's up to a $15 price variance — one that hurts not just publishers an…
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Welcome to the future of 50 shades of Grey and Twilight.
Like Hollywood, the book world uses the profit from best sellers to support lesser sellers. Because these best sellers make more profit due to more sales, stack em high sellers can sell em cheap – supermarkets, Amazon etc. Independents rely on the best sellers to support the shop, something Walmart doesn’t have to do- Supermarkets use Special Offers to pull people through the door – ‘While we’re here we’ll buy this that and the other’.
Supermarkets don’t carry the lesser sellers. Independents die without best sellers. Every time a real bookshop dies, the market moves closer to everything being 50 shades (Looking at bookshelves today – literally 10-20 ‘Shades’ clones)
Swear to God, even in India that was all over the place in airport bookstores.