Yes, that's right, you SAVE more than $10,000.00 with the current Kindle discount on this title (that would buy a fleet of Kindle 2's). Those really interested in the subject matter, though, might want to check out the paperback version
- it's only $52.95 (currently discounted to $47.65). It won't load on your Kindle, but you could mark up and lose several dozen copies and not put a dent into the price asked for the electronic version.It's all a pricing error, of course. It's pretty obvious that the publisher was trying to set the price on the two editions, Kindle and Paperback, at the same $52.95 level. But his finger slipped and hit the 3 instead of the period (it's just one key above on the numeric keypad). Not only was the error not seen when submitted, you have to think that someone must have the job of checking the listings once up and that Amazon probably notified them of the listing being up (and probably sent an acknowledgement of the listing when first submitted, which may have also shown the price that was being set). And you would also think that someone over in the IS department might have set up a threshold (whether $100 or $1,000) as Apple did in the AppStore to at least flag items over that price and require a confirmation from the listing person (with a simple form where they retype the price, at least forcing them to make the same error twice), preventing such a listing from even being submitted, let alone posted to the store.
Then again, maybe this is part of the vendors plan to prove to his shareholders that ebooks simply don't sell and that they shouldn't bother with them for future titles. It might backfire - one copy may make more profit than all the paperback copies he sells in a year, if anyone ever actually orders it.
