On Sep 9 2024, I do a quick search on myself, and find my book being sold in Walmart. I don't sell the book at Walmart, only Lulu who is the printer-publisher. I even very specifically decided not to use Amazon services, or sell it at Amazon, or anywhere else besides Lulu, and for reasons that I have, some of the same reasons you might have if you were to do the same thing. Maybe you know the reasons, maybe not. Yet here it is, being sold by someone who technically wasn't authorized to sell it, at a price that I did not set, and also somewhere in Taiwan (although in my mind the entire website is artificially generated so it doesn't know where it is).
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Hidden Scents: The Language of Smell in the Age of Approximation (Paperback) $12.46 |
At least they do list the publisher as Lulu Press.
Note that on Lulu, the book is for sale for $14.98. So Walmart is losing money just to get the purchase, something called "loss leading" in the artificial economy in which we live.
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博客來-Hidden Scents: The Language of Smell in the Age of Approximation |
The point here is that we live in an artificial economy, where ownership doesn't matter, authorship doesn't matter, licensing doesn't matter, and even money doesn't matter (until you need it to buy food, of course).
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