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When I buy a book from Amazon, I pay Amazon, not the seller. Therefore, the seller is an employee of Amazon.

Right, so if you buy a book from Amazon, and then pay your credit card bill a month-something later, that means Amazon and the seller are employees of Visa. Wherever the end-user sends money is the employer; that's it.

When you buy a book from a seller on Amazon, who sets the price?

Very often Amazon

Just as you'd expect if Amazon was a physical bookstore - the store sets the price. Did you think authors were employees of Barnes and Noble?

That wasn't the question.

> When you buy a book from a seller on Amazon, who sets the price?

The answer is that the seller always sets the price. Sometimes the seller is Amazon itself, and other times it's not.

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