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BYJEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG ANDMIGUEL BUSTILLO Two weeks after an online book price war broke out among giant retailers, the three stores involved—Walmart, Amazon and Target—are limiting the number of copies their customers can buy. The limits will stop other booksellers from scooping up cheap ...
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Major booksellers didn't realize they were suppliers to rivals
BloggingStocks —
... Small book retailers were buying in bulk from major online booksellers because they could really save some money. One was buying up to 70 copies of a particular title -- it was $5 less a pop from the big guys than it would have been from the publisher. Finally, however, the big retailers have become wise to the trend and taken action, according to the Wall Street Journal (subscription required). ...
Supply, Demand, Price, Markets, Yadda-yadda
MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators —
... The second story was in The Wall Street Journal about a week ago. (I wish I could tell you with certainty that it’s free content. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it isn’t. If you run into a “subscriber content notice”, insert “Amid Price War, Three Retailers Begin Rationing Books” into your browser. You should be able to find the whole story. If that doesn’t work, the basic story has been covered by other news outlets like this segment from CBS News.) ...
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