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apbschmitz · 06-20-2011, 02:42 PM

So yesterday in the NY Times Book Review there was an enthusiastic review of Ten Thousand Saints, a novel that sounds good to me. The Kindle price is $12.99, the hardcover is $14.84. Not much difference there. Rightly or wrongly, to me the Kindle price seems to be overreaching. Others here have sensibly argued that nobody is forcing me to read it right now. I can wait for the price to go down. But I wonder how this works out for the author and the publisher in the end. I might remember this book when the price goes down in a few months. It's more likely that I won't. So there goes another sale. Tough luck for everybody.

06-20-2011, 02:42 PM	#94
apbschmitz Lord of Frogtown Posts: 149 Karma: 1154748 Join Date: May 2011 Location: St. Paul MN Device: Kindle	So yesterday in the NY Times Book Review there was an enthusiastic review of Ten Thousand Saints, a novel that sounds good to me. The Kindle price is $12.99, the hardcover is $14.84. Not much difference there. Rightly or wrongly, to me the Kindle price seems to be overreaching. Others here have sensibly argued that nobody is forcing me to read it right now. I can wait for the price to go down. But I wonder how this works out for the author and the publisher in the end. I might remember this book when the price goes down in a few months. It's more likely that I won't. So there goes another sale. Tough luck for everybody.