Thread: I wanna buy all of Steinbeck, but man the prices!
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Old 10-05-2011, 09:39 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by Daithi View Post
The Steinbeck prices really tick me off as well. Of Mice and Men is $9 and so is The Pearl. These book are only 100 pages each.

The publishers and Amazon are really missing the boat on the older classics. When people get an eReader one of the first things they do is starting looking at acquiring some of the classics. It may be classic sci-fi, or fantasy, or mystery, or literature, but these classics all bundled together should be made available. If they had all of Steinbeck's books, or Asimov's books, or Agatha Christie's books available as package deals they would sell a ton. But, nooooo. Instead they charge $9 for a 50+ year old book that is only 100 pages.
Agreed. Delphi Classics are doing some interesting things like that but only with public domain books and things like Steinbeck are still tied up with constant copyright extensions...
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