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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
good news : yay ! the new biography of Tom Waits IS AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK !!! hallelujah !!!
bad news : it's priced at 29.95$ list !!!!!  for an ebook !!! arg !!!! it's 21.64$ at fictionwise (club price !!!), 20.31$ at bob (after rewards !!), 14£ at Waterstone's (reduced from 20£ !!!!) !
for the kindle it's $16.47 which is obviously of no interest to me since i can't buy it from the kindle store. i did find it on ereader at 12.95$ which is 56.76% reduction from the list price, but i've never tried the ereader format, have not heard good things about it, have no idea how to remove the drm / format shift...
seriously, this is ridiculous. do you hear me random house ? RIDICULOUS !!!!!!
i've been waiting for this biography for months (seriously : patricia sent me a link to an article reviewing it before it was published) and i really want to read it, but i don't want to read it enough to spend over 20$ on it !!!
i guess i'll have to wait for the next killer sale at fw. 
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Oh, Zelda, I so feel your pain. My story isn't quite that extreme, but it's still frustrating. I am missing two books (3 and 4) from a series. Those two JUST became available in ebook format, however, despite being published in print in 1997 and 1998, respectively, the ebook editions are $13.99. The next-to-the-last in the series (which I already have, it's book 14) is also available. At "normal" price. ARGHHHHH!!! What are publishers thinking? If I bought the paperback in 1997 at $6.99, what on earth makes them think I'm going to pay twice that now? For something that they insist I don't even "own" when I'm done, I only get a license to read it?