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Originally Posted by HarryT
$15 seems an eminently reasonable price to me for a new release - it's a heck of a lot cheaper than the price of UK hardbacks, and only a little more expensive than paperbacks (standard UK price for a paperback is about $11-13). Of course, the price should drop once the paperback is released, but I'd have no issue with paying $15 for a new release that I wanted to read. If you think of the number of hours a book takes to read, it's an extremely cheap form of entertainment whether it costs $10 or $15.
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From your perspective $15 is reasonable but I can walk into Costco and purchase many new releases at $15 and a little change for a hardback book. Wal-Mart and their warehouse store, Sam's Club, is the same. Target also steeply discounts new releases. Here in the US $15 for ebook versions of the hardback is not a deal.