When I said a book was twice as much on iBooks I kinda forget that I'm comparing it to prices that were in effect 20 or 30 years ago when the books were cheaper. I guess it was an unfair comparison.
Pete
--- In iPad@yahoogroups.com, Ted Wagner <tfwagner2001@...> wrote:
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> The book he was looking at was the same price on both... $10.99. Also, it depends what that fraction is, because I can buy iTunes cards for 20% off. (Best Buy puts them on sale every few months.) So that $10.99 price is really $8.80 if I bought the iBook version.
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> I've bought books and music from Amazon, Google, and Apple. Sometimes Apple just doesn't have a book (e.g., The Hunger Games), so I'll look at Amazon.
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> Luckily the iPad gives us access to all of the different readers.Â
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> Ted
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> I don't see the point of paying for an iBook, when I can get the same thing from Amazon for a fraction of the cost, and read it on my iPad with the kindle reader app.
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> Sent from PINKY- my iPad
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> On May 5, 2012, at 12:49 PM, "petefromflorida" <petefromflorida@...> wrote:
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> > Now that you made me look a second time I realize that I just didn't read the description close enough. It is twice as expensive as the original paperback. I guess people just pay extra for the convenience?
> > Pete
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> > --- In iPad@yahoogroups.com, Jim Saklad <jimdoc@> wrote:
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> >>> I'm a big CS Lewis fan and when I looked up the Screwtape Letters on iBooks there were 4 different versions.
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> >> When I look, I see:
> >> The Screwtape Letters
> >> The Screwtape Letters Illustrated Edition
> >> The Screwtape Letters Study Guide.
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> >> Where are you looking that you see something else?
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> >> Jim Saklad mailto:jimdoc@
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