The price war involves the top 10 hottest book pre-orders, including
yet-to-be-released titles from Stephen King, John Grisham, Dean Koontz and James Patterson that are priced at about $9, a substantial discount off their list prices
The head buyer at
the Boulder Book Store, in Boulder, Colo., says he had intended to buy as many as 70 copies of Barbara Kingsolver's "The Lacuna" from the three online retailers, saving $5 per copy on what the
publisher, Harper, charges at wholesale and registers surprise at their action. "We're a big store, and if a customer wanted to order 100 copies of anything, we'd sell it to them," he says.
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