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Originally Posted by Ak Mike
Another thing I've noticed about the Sony store is that, when searching for non-fiction topics, a lot of the Sony books that come up as search results cannot really be meant as seriously offered for sale - their prices are bizarrely high, over $100 and sometimes over $200. I've not seen this at the Kindle store, but then, I have not done many similar searches there.
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Actually, many of these are seriously offered for sale. Specialized or academic books, have a very limited market. However the people in that market, really want the book. I spent $50+ on a ebook about pre Iron age warfare in the Near East and have quite a few hardback books that are in the $100+ range.
For people in a narrow niche like this, ebooks can be a true god send since so many of these type books go out of print quite rapidly. The only downside is that illustrations, pictures and maps don't tend to show up very well in ebooks.