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Originally Posted by Fbone
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.
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Thanks. Point taken. Since I tend to read mainly (but not exclusively) fiction my comments tend to focus on fiction without explicitly saying so. What I would call serious non-fiction (from which I exclude self-help books, celebrity biographies and the like) is in a somewhat different position to the market for fiction. I don't pretend to be entirely sure how this segment of the market has been changed by self-publishing, at least so far. Certainly not as radically as the market for fiction has been changed.