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With the introduction of Amazon Kindle in to the UK market, things have become pleasingly more competitive here - at least for the moment.
The Elizabeth Gilbert book the article refers to is being sold by Amazon in the UK as a pback at £3.28 or as an e-book at £2.78.
My pet hate is the price of an e-book when the paper version is only out as a hardback. I understand that hardbacks are expensive to produce and bulky to stock, but why should the e-book be priced at or near the hardback price? I'm talking about mainstream fiction here (where the publisher knows a pback edition will follow) - when they release the pback, then the e-book price drops accordingly.
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