Sarah Palin Goes Down Cheap on Amazon: Just $9 for "Going Rogue," A $29.00 Book

[a kennedy]

:rofl:

http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/9637

[Vinca]

1. Maybe she'll do book signings at the dollar store.

[Are_grits_groceries]

2. It isn't that simple I'm afraid.

Walmart and Amazon are having a book pricing war online. They have chosen several books to use, and most of them are top ten or whatever.

I hope they keep it up, and expand it to more books. I'm keeping my eye on them.

[FSogol]

3. Because authors shouldn't get paid? This price war sucks. n/t

[lunatica]

5. What if the orders for Palin's book are in the toilet or non existent?

This type of price war would actually garner them more money because people would buy the book for the cheaper price while they would never consider getting it at the more expensive price. See? That's how businesses move merchandise. Sell the throwaways cheap and keep the books that are being ordered and bought at a higher price, even if you have to put them on sale too.

[Are_grits_groceries]

11. The authors get paid.

In fact they probably get more money. These books are "loss leaders", and the companies are eating the difference between what they paid and what they are taking in.

The author has sold it for a certain price. Unless they have some weird contract, I can't imagine they would be willing to get paid by the companies' whims.

I could be wrong. There may be incentives built in and such, but I don't believe the author gets smacked for this.

[FSogol]

17. Authors like Palin and Stephen King can make money selling books for $10, but other writers won't

Amazon and Walmart are trying to set the price of books at $10. Who loses out? The writers. My first book came out in 1997 and sold for $24.98. I got $3 in royalties for each copy sold. If the book was priced at $10, I would have received $1.20 per book. Writers should make less than dishwashers so Walmart can sell pap to the masses?

[FSogol]

4. They want to get her book into the hands of as many morons as possible. n/t

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. That's $8.95 too much.

[Ilsa]

7. Maybe Palin will learn something about "market forces" and capitalism from this and how

it affects the creator/laborer of the product (not that she did anything to write the book). MAybe then she'll look at business from the side of the worker, not the corporation.

[KharmaTrain]

8. And She's Still Not Done Coloring It...

:rofl:

Still, she banked the check...that's all that matters.

[peekaloo]

9. from lipstick on a pit bull to a rainbow party.

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[C_U_L8R]

10. Freeps don't do books

which explains a lot

[Zen Democrat]

12. The price war isn't widespread, just selected books that are cheaper than dirt.

One is Palin's. If there was a market to pay $25 or $29 for the book, it would have the usual opening and then get the membership discounts of 30-40%. But pre-selling it at $9 is ridiculous. It's a volume push and Amazon and Walmart are playing along, IMO.

I ordered a book from Amazon yesterday and paid $20. Why wasn't it $9?

[MineralMan]

13. Sarah is a friend of mine...

For a nickel or a dime...

[stray cat]

14. Same for most best sellers including Stephen Kings - best seller price war

between Amazon, Walmart and Target.

[frylock]

20. heard that on NPR yesterday

[TheCowsCameHome]

15. The books are defective

The covers are too far apart.

[NoPasaran]

16. Charmin is still cheaper

More squeezable too.

[Captain Hilts]

18. There's a price war going on now. Not unique to Palin. Hell, CDs are HALF the price

they used to be.

[Javaman]

19. What? another repuke door stop failing? hard to believe, simply hard to believe...

:rofl: