Let's see... firstly, Amazon doesn't sell secondhand books, they let third parties sell their secondhand books... and there are loads way cheaper than $US1.99 if you look on other Amazon sites (as low as £0.01)
Secondly, in this case there were, of course, no costs at all involved in producing a 40-something year-old book in eFormat, just take the original computer output from the author...
oh, wait a minute, only paper format from then so just do a quick scan and auto-OCR or maybe it actually got a proper proofing with a bit of work... and if you're that outraged by the price then do a google for "Catch-22 eBook" and you'll get 160,000 hits including many free ones (some of which even look as though they may be legal), email a complaint to the publisher and exercise your ultimate sanction... don't buy it!
As for it being a "40 year old book," what does that have to do with the price of anything? Age doesn't affect quality or is it you argument that everything not brand new, should be virtually given away...
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Originally Posted by asjogren
$US12.99 - For a book where Amazon sells a used paper copy for $US1.99?
And of course, "This price was set by the Publisher."
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