Bots are a boy's dream. They're like a machine that goes out and asks every girl if she wants to dance. Nice idea, but all it produces is rejection. The practice of having everybody pay the same price for a Tom Clancy book probably won't survive another 10 years. Look at how wine is bought and sold today, and you see a bit of how dynamic-price markets work.
Early buyers get a discount in return for accepting a certain quality risk.
We're inventing similar commerce systems online.