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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The perils of automatic pricing on Amazon

Most books on Amazon have fairly low prices. But the book “The Making of a Fly”, by Peter A Lawrence, somehow tripped an automatic pricing algorithm and shot up to $23 million. Today’s price is down to $976.98. Not bad for a book originally priced at $35.

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