Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Shrink Rap Book for Sale, Cheap.

I periodically check Amazon.com to see if anyone has written any new reviews on our Shrink Rap book.  I've noticed over time that the price of the paperback varies.  It started at $12.96, then one day it was $14.96, and today it's $10.97.    Why not $10.96? or $10.99?  Well, today if you'd like to buy our book, you can get it for $10.97 on Amazon.  I guess I'll have to see what it's going for on Barnes & Noble.....

6 comments:

Sunny CA said...

I selected sheets one time and left them in my "shopping cart" because I was on the fence. When I came back the next day the price had dropped 20%. I bought them.

I don't know what lower price on a paperback means. There was a crossover point not long ago when more e-books were sold than print books. I am guessing there may be pressure on paperback prices from e-book prices right now. Being a Kindle owner I don't think it is fair for me to pay the same price that someone else pays for a book to be printed, bound, stored, shipped, but business is not "fair". I hope you sell a lot of copies.

Anonymous said...

I would rather read a book, that gave cure to the draft, but was unfortunate enough to receive sunstroke! LOL!

or of grief and sorrow.

PDF doc said...

I think that the price of books arrived at by a complex mathematical equation that is too complex for a simple MD to understand...this would involve number of books sold over a period of time, popularity of the field, etc. Of course, I always make things more complicated than they are...probably just some guy in the back room with a dart board with prices on it.

BTW, I recently looked up the price, so that I could read the book and be enlightened on the ducks thing. All I remember from med school about ducks is that if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it is a duck!

Hoping to be enlightened soon...

Anonymous said...

Barnes and Noble has it listed at....10.97. Coincidence?

Anonymous said...

Chart the trend against the major stock indeces. Maybe you can scoop up a few tonight for 8.97. Me, I'm sitting on my cash.

Anonymous said...

Price customization: Amazon recognizes you and prices accordingly based on your history or other data points. Or it's running 'random' pricing tests. Could be either, really. Call it discrimination. Make a fuss. I think other people have tried. They won't care.