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Originally Posted by darryl
I am horrified by these ebook prices, and I am far from alone. Why on earth would I want to pay $20 or $17 for an ebook when I can buy Indie ebooks as good or better for a fraction of the price? To me this is the case with the vast majority of books. There are very rare exceptions where I really want to read a particular book. The authors I used to read before agency have all been replaced by Indies whose books are as good or in some cases better, with the exception of John Sandford. But I still refuse to pay the ridiculous publisher set price for his books, which I read through other (legal) means.
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These books are biographies and prices tend to be higher.
Grant is 1100 pages long and is written by a Pulitzer Prize winner. His books are probably one of the best researched and authoritative in the field. Leonardo is written by the author who also wrote Steve Jobs and Einstein. This one is only 600 pages but it's said he reviewed thousands of documents written by da Vinci himself ... in Italian using mirror image cursive.
Whether they are worth the price offered each must decide but I wouldn't expect these to be a $0.99 daily deal anytime soon.