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by ribosometronome 3375 days ago
When you buy a book from a seller on Amazon, who sets the price?
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Just as you'd expect if Amazon was a physical bookstore - the store sets the price. Did you think authors were employees of Barnes and Noble?
That wasn't the question.

> When you buy a book from a seller on Amazon, who sets the price?

The answer is that the seller always sets the price. Sometimes the seller is Amazon itself, and other times it's not.

Very often Amazon