Author Discovers Bots Competing To Sell His Book
What was happening was that a bot had found the book and priced it at some ridiculous level – $45 at last count. Bueno was bemused, at best, and realized that bots had found the book and were essentially running a price war amongst themselves in order to offer the same print-on-demand book Bueno was offering at a massively inflated price. They were, in short, going to buy the $14 book and resell it for forty dollars more.
“My reaction to this algorithmic whipsawing has settled down to a kind of helpless bemusement. I mean, the plot of my bookis about how understanding computers is the first step to taking control of your life in the 21st century. Now I don’t know what to believe.”
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