Amazon sent me some book recommendations, including A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson and A Really Short History of Nearly Everything by the same author. The second book costs five dollars more. Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
Maybe condensing a short history into a really short history saves me some time and I have to pay more for that. Time is money . . . in this case, five dollars.
Unlike more conventional retailers, online merchants do not necessarily discount buying in quantity.
For example, last fall I was looking to purchase individually sealed Germ-X wipes packets. On amazon.com, I could buy four boxes of 100 cheaper than I could by one box of 400.
I have been informed that my experience was not unique.