09-28-2011, 07:23 AM | #1 |
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Book price incident !
I've been recommended "The Invisible Ones" by Stef Penney.
A few days ago, I had a flyer from a book-buying club [print] I belong to. It offered it at £5.99. This spurred me into action. However .... kindle £9.02 Lovereading £11.99 " " £13.65 Foyles £15.83 Guess what I did ? |
09-28-2011, 07:29 AM | #2 |
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09-28-2011, 07:46 AM | #3 |
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Now lets see.........
Diap, even I managed to get that one right !
P'raps I should have a bash at the Greek/Euro financial situation ? Followed up by a tinker with Wall Street.................. That'll be enough though, my Mum told never play Footsie with strangers...... |
09-28-2011, 07:50 AM | #4 |
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Ah. One of those. I have them everytime I want to get an e-book in Swedish. Pay 100 SEK +( 10 euro/ 14 dollar/ 9 pund) or get it for free from the library? Guess what I do? *loves Elib*
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The club price was "extra low", I didn't expect the club to be more expensive, and I did, rationally [thanks Diap] buy it from the book club.... Which was sort of my light-hearted , tongue-in-cheek, devil-may-care point in said post. I thought.... [ See....... the price, from the book club, was a lot lower, so, I got it from the book club. ] |
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Personally, I would have put it on my wishlist, and waited for the price to come down.
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I'd probably have bought the paper book, too. I'm reading about 3/4 of my books on the Kindle these days, but still like a physical copy from my favorite writers, or anything non-fiction that I might want to go back to later. I buy almost no paperbacks anymore, though.
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