What the Amazon Screw-Up Tells Us About $3.99 Comics and the Direct Market - ComicsAlliance | Comics culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews

Here is a story from Comics Alliance about a mistake by Amazon.

For people not in the know, there's been a bit of an online gold rush the past few days as, likely due to a major data mix-up, tons (literally, most likely!) of incredibly expensive trades and hardcovers distributed by Diamond Comics Distributors were accidentally repriced in Amazon's system (at list price, as opposed to discount price) at the paltry sum of $14.99. Some of them even got repriced down to about eight bucks later as a result of the surge in demand that shot the books to the top of the bestseller list and triggered Amazon's automatic-discount-for-bestsellers code.

The article goes on to explain what the this may or may not show about the commercial viability of comic books. It's an interesting article.

What the Amazon Screw-Up Tells Us About $3.99 Comics and the Direct Market - ComicsAlliance | Comics culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews

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