# Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies

<http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon to buy the lab an extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly – a classic work in developmental biology that we – and most other Drosophila developmental biologists – consult regularly. The book, published in 1992, is out of print. But Amazon listed 17 copies for sale: 15 used from $35.54, and 2 new from $1,730,045.91 (+$3.99 shipping).

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