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Are there such thing as fake books? (alien.top)
submitted 9 months ago by Jim_Rujnab256383@alien.top to c/books@metacritics.zone
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Recently I started reading books. I was browsing online looking to buy a book when I came across 2 different shops. One was selling a book (I won't name it) cheap then the other, more expensive (but still the same book). I wondered, are they the same and is the cheaper one "fake" or are there such thing as "fake" books?

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[–] arvidsem@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

A lot of independent booksellers on Amazon are drop-ship bots. They will automatically create listings for books based on the cost of buying the book from another seller and re-shipping. Occasionally, two of those bots will find each other and start pricing a book based on each other which results in the price spiralling to crazy levels.