14 Dec
2014
14 Dec
'14
5:53 p.m.
On 12/14/2014 04:51 PM, David Williams wrote:
Out of print books of limited quantity sold on Amazon
tends to have
ridiculous prices that have no reflection of actual interest or
demand for the book. I've seen this on lots of books listed on Amazon
and other places tend to check there to see what something is "worth"
first. Just takes one person to list it for a high price and everyone
else joins in. I bought that book when it first came out for $23.10
and Amazon later sold me the ebook for $2.99 since I bought the print
version previously. It is a nice book but not really worth much more
than that imo. I'll bet you most of those people aren't selling any
copies either.
As Al noted, used book prices via Amazon tend to have no relation to
supply and demand or even common sense. See this doozy:
http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
--Chuck