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Old 10-27-2008, 08:05 AM   #8
thfc2008
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Originally Posted by ChrisW View Post
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.
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.
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