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I just had a to buy an academic book - got it from Amazon, only £15, not bad - in fact no more expensive than second-hand copies on Waterstone's Marketplace. But then I live in Denmark so also had to pay something over £6 for shipping. It arrived this morning, which was very quick - only about five days from order.

Then I realised that the book has been produced by some kind of "print-on-demand" system - which is fine, quality is OK, but it means that when I ordered it there was, somewhere, a electronic version of the book sitting on some server. Why the f*¤k couldn't I buy it as an electronic version? I would have been happy to pay the same price as the pbook but could have saved myself £6 on shipping, could have had it five days ago, and I'm sure there's also some tree hugger argument as well which I can't be ar*¤d to articulate because I am severely dischuffed.

EDIT: Sorry - I thought I was posting this on the Vent and Rant Thread - mods, please feel free to move it