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?
by Jim_Rujnab256383
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It’s just different prices by different sellers.
This is like that movie *Blast From The Past* where Brendan Fraser comes out of the bunker and doesn’t know how anything works.
Man, I’ve been trying to find a genuine copy of ‘The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows’ for ages now.
Just listened today to a podcast interviewing an indie author. His book is distributed partially through a non-Amazon printer, and the price has been the same for its entire release. Even so, he has noticed that occasionally Amazon will revert to some seller with a ludicrous price, even though the book is still available for well under half of the new purchase price. Could be a shady reseller that you’re running into. Don’t know if this is what you’re running into, but it reminded me of it.
There used to be warnings on books that if it was missing its cover it wasn’t a copy intended for sale.
When I was in college there was a book fair that sold misprints and books with other minor cosmetic issues.
Neither are necessarily fake but different than the retail copies you’d get at B&N.