If you've been looking to order a dead-tree book on Amazon lately, you're in luck: the prices of many bestselling and fast-rising hardcover books have now been slashed by 50 or 65 percent of their retail list prices, and are cheaper than the Kindle ebook versions in many cases. The move, which was first observed Saturday by publishing news outlet Shelf Awareness , appears to have come without any public acknowledgement nor fanfare from Amazon. But it seems to be in direct response to rival ecommerce hub Overstock.com's recent announcement that beginning July 22, it was discounting "hundreds of thousands of titles" at 10 percent below below Amazon's prices.
As a consequence of Amazon's countermove, though, prices for many new hardcovers...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/29/4567546/amazon-and-overstock-hardcover-book-price-war
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