Amazon: Any Price You Can Cut, I Can Cut Lower, I Can Cut Any Price Lower Than You

So, the race to $0 book prices continues. As the AP notes this morning, the fierce price cutting in the book business, which until now had focused largely on pre-orders, has now spread to current works: Amazon.com is offering both John Grisham’s short-story collection Ford County and Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel The Lacuna for $9 apiece.