Comments on: Looking At The Future: The Price Of Books http://booksquare.com/looking-at-the-future-the-price-of-books/ Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Mon, 21 May 2012 06:15:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Maximum Persuasion http://booksquare.com/looking-at-the-future-the-price-of-books/comment-page-1/#comment-166175 Maximum Persuasion Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:20:14 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2007/01/02/2251/#comment-166175 I read in a PC site (PCWorld or PCMag) that Amazon had cookies that detected whether you were a regular purchaser of books. If you were- it adjusted the price upwards. There was much clamor against this when some folks figured it out. Im glad that Amazon ultimately recanted and stopped the practice. Imagine- penalizing regular buyers with higher prices? Illogical! I read in a PC site (PCWorld or PCMag) that Amazon had cookies that detected whether you were a regular purchaser of books.

If you were- it adjusted the price upwards.

There was much clamor against this when some folks figured it out.

Im glad that Amazon ultimately recanted and stopped the practice.

Imagine- penalizing regular buyers with higher prices? Illogical!

]]> By: Joan Kelly http://booksquare.com/looking-at-the-future-the-price-of-books/comment-page-1/#comment-159631 Joan Kelly Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:55:33 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2007/01/02/2251/#comment-159631 I am both grateful for and bedeviled by Booksquare's intelligent postings on these sorts of topics. Grateful because I love a well thought out and articulated article, bedeviled because said articles, like the one I'm posting a comment to now, give me The Fear. My gut feeling is that BS is so right she almost comes full circle around to being wrong again. (But definitely does not.) So I get this urge to do something that will land me on the cutting edge of solutions for the changes that are occuring but not being effectively dealt with yet. The urge is not followed, ever, by inspiration. GAH!!! And, as ever, thanks. I am both grateful for and bedeviled by Booksquare’s intelligent postings on these sorts of topics. Grateful because I love a well thought out and articulated article, bedeviled because said articles, like the one I’m posting a comment to now, give me The Fear. My gut feeling is that BS is so right she almost comes full circle around to being wrong again. (But definitely does not.) So I get this urge to do something that will land me on the cutting edge of solutions for the changes that are occuring but not being effectively dealt with yet. The urge is not followed, ever, by inspiration.

GAH!!!

And, as ever, thanks.

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