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could you sell it on amazon yourself for the same price you have it on your website? That would discourage anyone to sell it for a profit


Honestly, it's not worth the time for me to do that; it mostly sells by word of mouth. I'd rather say, "I wouldn't recommend buying it this way," and let people carry on doing as they wish. I'm not that worked up about controlling others' behavior.


You have no ISBN, right? It's fascinating that this bookseller took the time to create by hand an entry for your book in Amazon's product database.

In a way, not even not having an ISBN is a sure way to "withdraw from the international book trade"[1].

[1]: http://www.anagrambooks.com/no-isbn


Yes, that was part of the reason I didn't bother with it. I was frankly surprised to see that anyone bothered to list a copy at all, since the market is very small. (Primitive Baptists of any sort are a tiny, tiny fraction of a percent of American Christianity, and the appeal of my book, if any, is to an even smaller subset. But de gustibus non est disputandum.)

[EDIT: close paren. I couldn't take it!]




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