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Opinion: $243 for Sony e-book on Balzac’s short fiction? But wait! How about the $6.4K Kindle nuclear engineering e-book? 
TeleRead | by David Rothman | Fri, May 8
The p-book version featured at Amazon goes for $299.00 new, just $56 more. You can buy other copies via Amazon for $186.40 new and used paper codies for $50.48 on up.
Reminder: In case you didn’t pick up on it already, Oxford University Press is the real culprit here—not Sony or Amazon.
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