I was shopping online for a book this morning, and these are the prices I found:
Kindle: $9.89
iPad: $10.99Paperback: $8.99
Hardcover: $10.87
“Bargain” Hardcover: $6.40
I really want eBooks but I am firmly in the “eBooks should be cheaper” camp — I can’t lend an eBook to a friend, sell it at the second-hand bookstore, or display it on my bookshelf to create the appearance that I am a well-read person of intelligence, so the eBook version of anything is inherently less valuable to me. To the “but you can carry a whole library with you” crowd my response is that you should stop reading so goddamned much and go outside and play. Seriously.
Under these circumstances I don’t want to buy the physical book either. Book publishers are playing games and I don’t finance the stupidity of others.
So I’m going to the Library.
