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Old 03-16-2011, 10:22 AM   #40
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Do tell, what is a "scientific book"?
Books for mathematics and for subjects which use the scientific method. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Method
These books often ar quite thick and contain a lot of pictures which should make them more expensive but not that much more expensive.
While that is a clever misquotation, what I actually asked was:
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Do tell, what is a "real scientific book"?
Trying to understand why you consider ebooks to be different from "real" books.

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Amazon charges as much, if not more, for scientific ebooks as for the real scientific books while the costs of distribution are much lower (maybe not 50% but enough).
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