[DiapDealer]

Yes. The "I value ebooks less, so everybody else should/does, too" mindset is pretty old and tired. Not to mention that it's fairly easy to see it's not a widely shared mindset--considering the retail market for traditionally published ebooks isn't showing any signs of collapsing at their "ridiculously inflated" prices. It's time to accept the fact that people willing to pay the current prices are not few, and are not deluded. They just have different ideas about what some things are worth.

Feel free to wait for sales, or borrow more if you like. I'm not opposed to frugality in general. In fact I practice it myself in many other areas. I just don't make the mistake of pretending I'm somehow entitled to all things I desire being priced at, or below, the price I'm willing to pay for them when they first become available for purchase. Nor that my personal comfortability price-point is some sort of societally-held norm.