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Originally Posted by ChrisW
I happened to search for this book today and found it as a "special offer eBook launch price" on Waterstone's UK site at £15.19. You can buy the paperback on Amazon UK for £3.49 (new release this month). This sort of disparity is never going to help the eBook market to develop. Someone, somewhere is being very greedy.
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Quite agree. The UK prices of some ebooks is nothing short of astonishing.
Its a bit like apple opening their iTunes store for the first time and charging 4x the price of a CD, i.e. £28.
I probably wouldn't have bought this paperback book - just because its not a priority read for me and my bookshelf is already full to busting with books I haven't yet read. But if this ebook had been priced at £1.99 (still a huge mark up based on incremental cost involved) then I would have gone for it.
These Sony Readers would be flying off the shelves if the prices were even remotely comparable.