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Here is an example that just doesn't make any sense to me. From the Amazon website:
Micheo Kaku's "Physics of the Furture". The hardcover is $16.63, The Kindle version is $14.99, the paperback is $9.75. It seems almost perverse to set the e-book price so much higher than the paperback price. Ultimately, I think, some publisher will realize the real advantages of e-books: no paper, no printing press, almost $0 cost of distribution, no overstock.
Sadly, until that time we will be faced with inexplicable pricing schemes. Even more sadly, for an obstinate person, as I can be from time to time, it means that we just won't buy something that we would have otherwise bought. I suspect there are many who use e-reading devices who share this same reaction to pricing that perplexes and annoys us.
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