Why make this a personal attack?

I apologize if I ever implied that buying Tyler’s book was more expensive than buying Selected Nuclear Materials and Engineering Systems (Part 4) which costs $6,431.20. I don’t quite see that as a reasoned response on your part.

On the other hand, look at the Best Selling section of the available books on Kindly and you will see they are all at $9.99 or lower. Comparable wine books are also at that price.

For your convenience, a list of all Kindle e-books for sale at Amazon, ranked by price.

http://tinyurl.com/oy429w

I don’t know what Tyler ever did to you, but you seem intent on portraying him as some sort of hypocritical monster. But again, I think your single-minded stalker-ish harrassment and inability to change your tune in the face of a reasoned response speak for themselves. Your imbalanced vitriol is a stupid business decision, frankly. It sure makes you unworthy of financial support with *my* wine dollars. I detest the fact that you take the comments section of this wine blog and make it into your own little collection of personal attacks and tangents. I realize I’m falling for your trolling by responding to your comments, and you’ll probably chime in to have the last word. May I suggest an apology?

I’m all for Tyler making money. What I don’t understand is why his book sells for $14.40 if everyone else is at $9.99.

Let me assure I do everything I can to stop wine gouging when I can. If a wine gets a good review I don’t let it go to people who are going to make questionable profits. All I ask is that companies respect the standard mark-up in the wine trade. Tyler’s publisher is not doing so when they go beyond the $9.99 everyone else asks. And I would certainly doubt the extra $4.41 is going into Tyler’s pocket.

Since Tyler is so strong about environmental issues, shouldn’t he take a stand with his publisher demanding the industry standard mark-ups that everyone else is getting. Or is his strong “green” politics only when it comes out of someone else’s pocket?

And are you really opposed to a writer making money off his writing? Seriously?

How about this: “Joe, your wines cost more than $9.99. Please charge less.”

I’ve owned a Kindle now for a month and was going to buy your book this morning. I was surprised to see that the Kindle price is $14.40 compared to the actual shipped book price of $18.72 (including free shipping).

The New York Times Best Seller’ss list are all at $9.99 as are Alice Feiring’s book and the Billionaire’s Vinegar. In fact, $9.99 seems to be pretty much the limit for what a Kindle book costs.

Why is your book over 40% more expensive than the rest of the Kindle catalog. Perhaps this an oversight or a conflict between you and your publisher. Honestly, I have no idea.

But I’m in love with my Kindle and find it discouraging that environmentally conscious authors like you don’t encourage your readers to buy through e-book delivery. The paltry $3.32 difference between your paper book and e-mail delivery is not much of an incentive or savings.

Please let us know what is behind your surprising pricing strategy.

Three Cheers for “D for Dr. Vino”!!