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It's all based on the same book (Connectography). I highly recommend instead reading The Stack that just came out from MIT Press, which gives a much deeper analysis on the relationship between cities, software and geopolitics: http://thestack.org

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This is the book I didn't know I was looking for. Thanks.

Ethereum gets a mention :-)

  Hardcover: £25.99
  Kindle:    £23.99

Does it really cost £2.00 to print a hardcover and ship it across the Atlantic, or is MITPress taking the metaphorical mickey?

There was a big discussion about the relative price of eBooks on HN recently at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11207209 . Points include (i) big publishing houses trying to prevent discounting of eBooks, and (ii) physical production not being the main cost of books.

Do you really value books based on the price of wood pulp & the cost of shipping ?

>Does it really cost £2.00 to print a hardcover and ship it across the Atlantic

That's actually probably pretty close to correct.

Not defending the Kindle pricing but printing and distribution of physical books is a lot cheaper than many assume it is.

eBooks and physical books are taxed differently in the UK, so the prices will be much closer together.

Thanks. This looks like a good read!

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