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Old 01-30-2009, 10:54 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by luqmaninbmore View Post
Well, looking at ebooks.com, they have Anthony Kenney's Wittgenstein for over 80 dollars when its available new from Amazon for about 30. Approaches to Wittgenstein by Mcguiness is $125 in e and just under $32 at Amazon. Understanding on certainty is over $90 in e and under 30 as a new p-book at Amazon. And so on. I don't think ebooks.com is alone in this; I've noted some frankly incredible prices on the sony store too.
Yeah, that's outrageous. I wonder if anybody buys it at that price? Thinking of the big heavy books that I use a lot, I could imagine even paying a *slight* premium for a non-DRM'd digital copy, that would be portable and, if stored properly, more durable than the Dead Tree version. But more than double the price? That's nuts. And wherever you are on the planet, shipping won't cover that kind of discrepancy.
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