{"id":34390,"date":"2011-04-23T18:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T18:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/how-a-book-accidentally-gets-priced-at-23-million-on-amazon-wtf\/"},"modified":"2011-04-23T18:00:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T18:00:21","slug":"how-a-book-accidentally-gets-priced-at-23-million-on-amazon-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/how-a-book-accidentally-gets-priced-at-23-million-on-amazon-wtf.php","title":{"rendered":"How a Book Accidentally Gets Priced at $23 Million on Amazon [Wtf]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--  div style=\"background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 190px; padding: 1px;\"&gt;<a title=\"Click here to read How a Book Accidentally Gets Priced at $23 Million on Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/#!wtf\/\"><span>#<\/span><span>wtf<\/span><\/a>&lt;\/div --><div><a title=\"Click here to read How a Book Accidentally Gets Priced at $23 Million on Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5795058\/how-a-book-accidentally-gets-priced-at-23-million-on-amazon\"><br>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" height=\"120\" width=\"190\" alt=\"Click here to read How a Book Accidentally Gets Priced at $23 Million on Amazon\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6ddd8_small_23millybook.jpg\"><br>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/div><\/div><p>\t\t\t\tPeter Lawrence's The Making of a Fly, published in 1992, is supposed to be a great book for developmental biologists. 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