Amazon stopped discounting?

[pbray]

Was on Amazon.com this morning and noticed that they are no longer discounting new massmarket paperbacks. A quick search confirmed that there seems to be a new policy--hardcovers and tradepaperbacks are discounted, massmarket is not.

Anyone else noticed this? As far as I can tell this is a recent phenomenon.

Comments

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

Well, that's annoying. It certainly makes them less attractive as a source for reading material. Still, unless they start charging sales tax, they're still cheaper than buying books locally, provided you buy enough to get free shipping.

Mind you, I do very much like buying books locally, especially now that my city has a bookstore (and an independent one at that).

[princejvstin.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I know they tried this before, and then rolled it back sometime later.
And older massmarkets have always been pushed back to cover price for a long time now.

But I just checked a newly published book, and that's not discounted either.

Damn, I think you are right.

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

I hadn't noticed the new MMs being discounted recently at all, let alone the older MMs. In fact, I only order MMs from amazon if I'm desperate. I do buy all my trade and hardcovers there though. I think they're general policy is that if it's over $15 then it's guaranteed to be discounted in some way. Everything else is hit or miss.

ST doesn't seem to have a discount yet. Or do they only start applying the discount once the book comes out?

[earthgoat.livejournal.com]

Most stores don't discount mass markets anymore either.