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Originally Posted by luqmaninbmore
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.
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I too have checked the same titles on e-book vendor sites and Amazon for the paper version with the same results. I have worked in publishing before and I know that one of the biggest costs in bringing out a book is the cost of printing, and storing it. One would think that publishing it in electronic form would entail lower costs but that does not seem to be the case. I would love to buy all my books in e-book form as my library cannot expand forever for lack of space, but as long as e-books remain similar or more expensive that the paper version I will have to buy it in paper and see more trees cut down.
Here is an article that attempts to explain why e-books are still expensive.
http://livrenumerique.blogspot.com/2...tribution.html