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Old 01-26-2011, 02:43 PM   #31
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LOL! I simply LOVE the reviews on that book! I haven't had a good laugh in a while and here I am, giggling away in the dead of night
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Old 01-26-2011, 04:38 PM   #32
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That's ridiculous. That's the price of used car.
It's twice the amount we paid for my wife's car. But then again, we're cheapskates.
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Old 01-26-2011, 04:54 PM   #33
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that's pretty reasonable when you consider they want $9.99 for 'america by heart' by sarah palin!
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that last is more expensive... LOL
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Old 01-26-2011, 05:04 PM   #34
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ok, I have now "the try"...

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It's funny to have a few pages of a book such as shareware, which costs more than all the ebook that I have in the Kindle ...

pd: don´t worry, my bank never will give me to Amazon... 6000 $.

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Children, you should realize that research materials/supplies are often expensive but are bought by grants. Scientists already make virtually no money publishing research, and in a very small field, a book such as this would sell very few copies. Look at related purchases and you can see similarly priced books. It is likely that large quantities of hardbound copies were purchased for labs/libraries.

Just because some idiots write fake reviews you get all excited over nothing.
I doubt that profits from all of these 3000$-6000$ research tomes would constitute that gained by a single twilight novel, sad where our priorities lie.
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Old 01-28-2011, 02:48 AM   #36
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Children, you should realize that research materials/supplies are often expensive but are bought by grants. Scientists already make virtually no money publishing research, and in a very small field, a book such as this would sell very few copies. Look at related purchases and you can see similarly priced books. It is likely that large quantities of hardbound copies were purchased for labs/libraries.

Just because some idiots write fake reviews you get all excited over nothing.
I doubt that profits from all of these 3000$-6000$ research tomes would constitute that gained by a single twilight novel, sad where our priorities lie.
Daddy, we are not excited about a research book being expensive but about a reseach eBook!!!! There is a difference and that is what makes it funny.

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Well, to make a book or an ebook you must do some research, right? So, knowledge on paper is valuable, in ebook is not?

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(I hate when reviews like those get so many views as much as I hate when Paris Hilton gets more clicks than discussion about future of our children.)
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Old 01-28-2011, 04:41 AM   #38
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Daddy, we are not excited about a research book being expensive but about a reseach eBook!!!! There is a difference and that is what makes it funny.

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I'm afraid that I honestly don't see the slightest humour in it. Seems to be a bunch of silly people writing fake reviews for a book that they almost certainly have not read. That doesn't help anybody.
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Old 01-28-2011, 05:47 AM   #39
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I'm afraid that I honestly don't see the slightest humour in it. Seems to be a bunch of silly people writing fake reviews for a book that they almost certainly have not read. That doesn't help anybody.
Oh, yes now I see your point, and those fake reviews make most certainly millions of people not to buy this book and thus it is a very naughty thing to do!

Tststs, how dare they! Now there is some poor atomic engergie specialist bound to head for North Corea to build there next bomb without a fitting read for his supersonic flight down there. All because these silly people weren't helpful...

It is a shame

Let us cross our fingers and hope that those who need this book for their work will have a look at the HC, buy it and never see those silly comments on the ebook side.
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Old 01-28-2011, 05:59 AM   #40
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I agree entirely.
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Old 01-28-2011, 06:07 AM   #41
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Old 01-28-2011, 12:50 PM   #42
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Indeed, we are joking here and just one click can make a serious disaster
Don't you get a "I have made a mistake" possibility after "One-Click" as I do ?

And of course a really big purchase would exceed your plastic card limit.

Also

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/cust...506470#content

Any content you purchase for Kindle from the Amazon Kindle store is eligible for return and refund if we receive your request within 7 days of the date of purchase.
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Well, it's not on Amazon, but here is an ebook for $12,499,498.75. The paperback version is more expensive at $12,500,005.75.

http://www.getfreeebooks.com/?p=736
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Old 01-30-2011, 11:32 AM   #44
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Oh, I like that one daesdaemar. It is a whooping 125 pages long.
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Old 01-30-2011, 08:20 PM   #45
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When I was in the University like 1994 there was a similar one there. It was a pbook / handbook, and the librarian was also scare every-time that we request the book, lol ...

By the way, it was a Material Engineering's book too...
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