How much do you value your work?

[Justin]

:O 7 million?! Okay that has got to be a joke...wow...just wow!

[[deleted user]]

Yeah, one of mine was listed as a "used book" priced at over $100. Aside from the ridiculous price, the book had just been released so there were few printed copies in existence--exactly three, and I owned them all.

[Sarah (Presto agitato)]

Justin wrote: ":O 7 million?! Okay that has got to be a joke...wow...just wow!"

The price has gone up since last night. It's now over $50 trillion (+$3.99 shipping).

There are lots of examples of this type of thing. Search book price from high to low some time. It can be entertaining!

It has to do with automated pricing bots. This blog explains it, from a guy trying to buy a fly biology book that cost several million dollars:
http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358

These crazy expensive examples are extreme, but I imagine there are many similar scenarios. This may explain what some of you have seen, with bizarrely high prices for your own books when no one else has a copy.

Here's another guy who found the bots driving his price down rather than up:
http://carlos.bueno.org/2012/02/bots-...