Following the Amazon ebook pricing reset that publishers have cursed and feared, on Thursday Walmart.com dropped the price on their top 10 pre-orders titles (Palin, Crichton, Grisham, Crichton, Patterson, Koontz, etc.) to an even $10, with free shipping included. More broadly, they are offering their top 200 books at discounts of 50 percent or more in a program called America’s Reading List. Later in the day, Amazon matched Wal-Mart’s pricing–and today both sites have dropped those ten promotional titles to just $9. Walmart.com ceo Raul Vazuez told the paper, “If there is going to be a ‘Wal-Mart of the Web’, […]
