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DeeGee, I have downloaded free books from Google and from the Gutenberg Project. As far as pricing of other books, I never bought a pbook until it was released to the mass market (paperback). The cover price is usually $8. Amazon frequently offers a 4 for the price of 3 deal which brings the price to $6 a book and with free shipping. So, $9.99 for The Lost Symbol is too much IMO. I know it's not out in paperback yet, but I can wait. I'm finding plenty to read as free or very low cost ebooks. I'm now reading the Outlander which I got from the Sony store for around $3.
What I'm bothered by is that both Sony and Amazon claim that their price for ebooks is less than that of paper books. That's only true if you compare the price to the hard cover in many cases. I don't think that's a reasonable comparison since an ebook doesn't give you an attractive cover with the paper jacket and you can fill your library shelves with it. So the fairest comparison is to the mass market pbook version.
Dave W
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