Book Price Wars
Amazon and Wal-Mart are engaging in a price war for some “highly anticipated hardback titles” with prices at both retailers dropping below $10.00. Wal-Mart is also offering free shipping. For the details, see Book wars! Wal-Mart, Amazon slash costs from MSNBC and Book price war: Wal-Mart vs. Amazon.com from ABC. I ran across these links on Friday’s Publib list digest. Here’s a link to the thread. Especially interesting were the stock price reactions for not just Wal-Mart (up) and Amazon…