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Take a look at the pricing page. The ePub and PDF versions are a fraction of the cost of the paperbacks. Finally someone with a clue! It's always annoyed me to no ends that Amazon only provides a small discount for their Kindle version compared to a paperback.

http://aosabook.org/en/buy.html

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It's always annoyed me to no ends that Amazon only provides a small discount for their Kindle version compared to a paperback.

That's entirely up to the publisher. A lot of books that are self-published have a significant price difference, e.g. Kindle version at something under $5, paperback something over $10. I get the impression that at least some of the new publishing houses that are establishing themselves are following this model for the titles they will also offer in print.

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