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The book discusses the various aspects of pricing and different ways to calculate whether certain price change makes sense. It has some useful nuggets about how prices are set and some insights into different tactics that can be used. Overall found it fairly lengthy and that the content can be condensed.
It provides pricing theory as deemed needed (and if you Do recommend its reading and have it readily available for every pricing professional.
Ugh, this book was a struggle to get through. One of my pet peeves is when a book refers to content in future chapters, and this book does that in abundance. It probably could have been 50pages shorter if not for all the references to forthcoming topics! The authors put out some good information, and if the reader is careful, he or she can glean the necessities of what is being said. However, there are so many subtle disclaimers that the authors hardly ever seem to take a solid stance on When your boss gives you a book to read, you read it. So, I did. If you have a position with enormous amounts of flexibility in your pricing structure, then maybe this book would be good for you, if only for the copious amount of examples.