Monday, April 25, 2011

The Perils of Algorithmic Pricing

This blog entry tells a highly amusing story about algorithmic pricing on Amazon.

Wow! A book about flies that costs more than $23 million! Who knew?

(Tip of the cap to Jaideep Singh.)

1 comment:

ChaosBook said...

I'm sorry - forgot to tell you - today would have been the perfect date: http://jennyleighbee.blogspot.com/2011/04/april-25th.html (though perhaps not in Oxford)