Comments on: Amazon’s ‘price parity’ clause attracts attention of German antitrust regulator http://gigaom.com/2013/02/20/amazons-price-parity-clause-attracts-attention-of-german-antitrust-regulator/ Wed, 22 May 2013 07:25:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ben Dyson http://gigaom.com/2013/02/20/amazons-price-parity-clause-attracts-attention-of-german-antitrust-regulator/#comment-1315220 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:09:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=612131#comment-1315220 HI just read your article

“GERMAN CARTEL OFFICE PROBES AMAZON’S PRICING POLICY FOR TRADERS”

http://www.lloyds.com/news-and-insight/news-and-features/dow-jones/article/14536/german-cartel-office-probes-amazon-s-pricing-policy-for-traders

The funniest thing about Amazon’s rule is there prices are often lower on a another Amazon site, so they break there own rules!

Here is a some examples!

http://www.huge-river.com/product/B000NDGNCS

http://www.huge-river.com/product/B000GETVAA

You can go though this site and find them all day!

]]> By: dkent http://gigaom.com/2013/02/20/amazons-price-parity-clause-attracts-attention-of-german-antitrust-regulator/#comment-1314524 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:05:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=612131#comment-1314524 A price parity clause is standard for all aspects of the American digital book business. That’s why epublishers can’t offer a lower price on their websites than is offered at places like Amazon Kindle.

Some years back, one of my publishers was banned from Fictionwise because it offered a few books cheaper on its site than Fictionwise.

If laws did away with the price parity clause, the big distributors would still win because places like Amazon runs a constant search comparing prices. A friend was caught by this when she offered a free sampler of one of her novels that consisted of a few chapters and some extra material, NOT the whole book, and she discovered to her horror that Amazon’s search engine had decided she was giving the book away for free so her book was now free on Amazon. It took her months and thousands of dollars in lost sales before Amazon corrected the problem.

]]> By: dkent http://gigaom.com/2013/02/20/amazons-price-parity-clause-attracts-attention-of-german-antitrust-regulator/#comment-1314523 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:04:35 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=612131#comment-1314523 A price parity clause is standard for all aspects of the American digital book business. That’s why epublishers can’t offer a lower price on their websites than is offered at places like Amazon Kindle.

Some years back, one of my publishers was banned from Fictionwise because it offered a few books cheaper on its site than Fictionwise.

If laws did away with the price parity clause, the big distributors would still win because places like Amazon runs a constant search comparing prices. A friend was caught by this when she offered a free sampler of one of her novels that consisted of a few chapters and some extra material, NOT the whole book, and she discovered to her horror that Amazon’s search engine had decided she was giving the book away for free so her book was now free on Amazon. It took her months and thousands of dollars in lost sales before Amazon corrected the problem.

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