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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
The Kindle Store gives the publication date as July 7, 2011 (University of Toronto Press). Maybe the price will come down if I wait. But that's high, even for a recently published ebook.
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Given my admittedly limited experience with Canadian university press e-books, I don't think the pricedrop is going to happen any time soon. They mostly seem to have not latched on to the idea that e-books are different from print books as far as value for money due to traditional resellability goes. Although McGill-Queen's does seem to have gotten the idea that some sort of discount should be offered on most text-only titles.
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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Well... I finished WWW: Watch... and enjoyed those two books. I really want to see how it ends.. but I just can't see paying $12 for a book. Yea, I know strange since I just bought a totally unneeded new Kindle touch for $99.
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No, it's perfectly reasonable. The first two books in the trilogy are available in paperback much cheaper and possibly the price will drop later on the newest installment. Also, it's ridiculous to pay a $5 premium over the paperback pricing for a probably typo-riddled copy that likely doesn't include the original cover art which you can't even give away if it turns out you don't like it (all Sawyer's WWW e-books cost $13.66 for us in Canada; paid in USD at Amazon). With that and spare change, you could buy a whole other book.
Do it 20 times and you've paid for your shiny new Kindle Touch, which will give you many more hours of enjoyment well above the 2-3 it takes you to read one single overpriced book.
In the meantime, you might like to try the free short stories over at
Robert J. Sawyer's website if you haven't already.
Best reads, IMHO, are "You See But You Do Not Observe" (an excellent Sherlock Holmes tales), "Identity Theft" and "The Hand You're Dealt" (really good futuristic sf colony murder mysteries) and I've always had a lurking fondness for "Just Like Old Times" (beware futuristic "easy" solutions to crime).