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Thanks for all your replies - all valid of course. The answer from amazon is simply the 'author' sets the price - fine. I do not own a 'reader'. My interest is from an educational angle. Kindle for PC and Calibre (Calibre in particular) allows the multiple use of a 'book' to be run if (in the case of Kindle) the multille copies of the 'reader' installed on the various pc's are registered to the one account - no problem here.
Looking at this from a student using a reference book on say Visual Basic to have an e-book version running alongside the Visual Basic application has a number of advantages.
Cost is the big plus (for the educational body) but having the reference book in e-format I believe would be more productive for the student than the 'tree' lying open on a desk (cluttered or not).
Having only recently looked at e-books I have become a huge fan and already have various on my pc. I think I will wait for the various iPad's to emerge at Christmas and use one of those rather than a Kndle type reader.
Regards to all.
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