The Vegucation of Robin... slashed to almost half price.. ALREADY!

[Nurse Remulak]

Just looked... her book has been REDUCED IN PRICE from $35.00 to $19.02 on Amazon.com.. Gosh, who would've thunk it would be an abysmal failure? Oh... ya.. Everyone on Earth except Robin and the publisher.

[Tom Doyers]

This is why real authors can't make a living anymore.

[Shithead]

. Gosh, who would've thunk it would be an abysmal failure?

[Murcielago]

No way any retailer was ever going to be offering that pile of shit for $35, it wouldn't sell at $3.50.

95% of sales will be to dummy buyers set up by Quivers and Buchwald just so it will crack the bestseller list before being dumped to the bargain bin.

[Nurse Remulak]

No way any retailer was ever going to be offering that pile of shit for $35, it wouldn't sell at $3.50.

$35.00 was the original price on Amazon..if you go to Amazon right now you will see that. I guess Amazon figured when zero units sold they better reduce the price ASAP!

[Murcielago]

$35.00 was the original price on Amazon..if you go to Amazon right now you will see that. I guess Amazon figured when zero units sold they better reduce the price ASAP!

Right, but I'm pretty sure Amazon posts an unreal "suggested retail price" for things just so their price looks like a huge discount by comparison. I'll stand corrected if it ever was actually selling for $35, but I doubt that's the case.

[Nurse Remulak]

Right, but I'm pretty sure Amazon posts an unreal "suggested retail price" for things just so their price looks like a huge discount by comparison. I'll stand corrected if it ever was actually selling for $35, but I doubt that's the case.

Look at any random relatively new book on Amazon. They're all REDUCED IN PRICE by close to half.

I just went for a ride on the net.. http://www.barnesandnoble.com, http://www.bookadda.com, http://www.walmart.com and http://www.allbookstores.com all show a list price of $35.00. But not a single one of them is selling it for that.. they have all reduced the price to under $20.00.

[Sickboy]

Maybe should should wad up the paper from all the unsold copies to fill the hole in her colon.

[tv910]

I wonder if Robin will try something shady to make some extra bucks off this trainwreck. Like donating a few thousand copies to "charity" and taking a deduction based on the inflated original price.

[Uncle Larry]

Maybe the 15 Foundation will buy some too, and then donate the books to some lucky schools.

[Pony]

Just looked... her book has been REDUCED IN PRICE from $35.00 to $19.02 on Amazon.com.. Gosh, who would've thunk it would be an abysmal failure? Oh... ya.. Everyone on Earth except Robin and the publisher.

Look at any random relatively new book on Amazon. They're all REDUCED IN PRICE by close to half.

[NotMyBro]

Dude, that's what Amazon does to almost ALL books! They buy books for 40% of list price and then sell it at 50% off and collect small margins. No conspiracy here. Just scumbag Amazon tactics.

[Nurse Remulak]

Dude, that's what Amazon does to almost ALL books! They buy books for 40% of list price and then sell it at 50% off and collect small margins. No conspiracy here. Just scumbag Amazon tactics.

Seems http://www.barnesandnoble.com, http://www.bookadda.com, http://www.walmart.com and http://www.allbookstores.com all have the same business model.

[Dick Gozinya]

Dude, that's what Amazon does to almost ALL books! They buy books for 40% of list price and then sell it at 50% off and collect small margins. No conspiracy here. Just scumbag Amazon tactics.

Regardless... its still not selling.

[Crazy Marcus]

Regardless... its still not selling.

i haven't heard her talking about it on the show and she hasn't promoted it anywhere, why would you expect it to be selling now?

[SouthernListen]

Dude, that's what Amazon does to almost ALL books! They buy books for 40% of list price and then sell it at 50% off and collect small margins. No conspiracy here. Just scumbag Amazon tactics.

Why scumbag? Sounds like free market competition. Is lower prices for consumers a bad thing? If a bookstore is less efficient than mail order, why should we go to the less efficient brick/mortar bookstore?

[NotMyBro]

Why scumbag? Sounds like free market competition. Is lower prices for consumers a bad thing? If a bookstore is less efficient than mail order, why should we go to the less efficient brick/mortar bookstore?

They're destroying the competition. Once they kill off all of the ma & pa stores and other large competitors, they'll jack up the prices. Then you'll see why monopolies are bad.

[rilagent]

They're destroying the competition. Once they kill off all of the ma & pa stores and other large competitors, they'll jack up the prices. Then you'll see why monopolies are bad.

They're far from a monopoly. If they get too big they'll lose efficiency and stop satisfying the consumer. Just look at what happened to General Motors or more to the point the beer giants Anheuser Bush/Henieken/InBev. The bigger the beer companies got, the cheaper the price and the shittier the bear. In response the consumer started partaking in craft beers and the United States has more breweries than it has in it's history. The market place has a nice way of sorting these things out.

As for the ma and pa bookstores, their deaths aren't the giant booksellers, people just aren't reading books like they formerly did. I haven't read a physical book in over year - not since I got my Nook as a gift - and I haven't purchased a physical book in over 5 years and I pass 3 bookstores on my way to the train in the morning.

[SouthernListen]

Well, 15 or so years in, prices are still quite low! If that's the plan it's moving pretty slowly. If bookstores want to survive they have to offer something special, and the ones I've been at just don't have anything to add. Amazon will suggest books I'd like, they don't. Amazon ships them to my house. They won't, or would charge a lot for it. Amazon has a way for me to look up books by subject, author, etc, most bookstores make you browse the store. And most of all,

If I take it in the bathroom with me I can still return it to Amazon.

They're destroying the competition. Once they kill off all of the ma & pa stores and other large competitors, they'll jack up the prices. Then you'll see why monopolies are bad.

[Lou Cypher]

Why scumbag? Sounds like free market competition. Is lower prices for consumers a bad thing? If a bookstore is less efficient than mail order, why should we go to the less efficient brick/mortar bookstore?

The only time it really pisses me off is when I shop at my local bookstore. It's my favorite place in the world - so relaxing, great magazine section, good coffee, etc. When I check their website, everything I just paid full price for is half-price or less. Kind of takes the joy out of visiting the store.