Re:Ask HN: Why is this C Programming Book Worth $674.99
by ksaj on Sunday July 21, 2019 @06:38PM
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A lot of people think this is an Amazon thing. But every bookstore that lists this book have it for similarly high prices. Even used copies are a couple hundred bucks.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is this C Programming Book Worth $674.99
by mindcrime on Monday July 22, 2019 @12:58PM
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But every bookstore that lists this book have it for similarly high prices.
It's the same batch of sellers, selling across most all of those sites. Or to the extent that there are sellers who are, say, on Ebay but not Amazon, or vice versa, they have bots tracking the prices across all the sites. In either case, I find that you just don't get much price variance across book selling sites these days. I mean, sure, there are occasional exceptions, but by and large, prices tend to converge to a common value, or at least to a small range around that.