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To be completely blunt, I think it's just a dumb idea to package Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in a paperback + ebook combo. Buy two Kindles, or two Kobos, or two Nooks and share the account (5 or 6 devices is usually legal), and one purchase overs the whole household ... in real time. You can't do that with a paperback and you don't have to buy two of anything (except the device).
In Canada, that Penguin mass market Dragon Tattoo book is $13.50; the e-book at Kobobooks is $7.99. Remind me again why I want to buy this in paper?!?
What's missing in the thick skulls of these marketers trying to figure out how to push paper is this: some of us do NOT want paper! This is what's ridiculous about newspapers forcing consumers to take daily delivery of their paper in order to access the full website. Give me the e-edition, charge me less, include the ads, and quit wasting my time putting the paper edition which I won't read into recycling or landfill.
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