Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I looked up the price for the last couple new paperbacks I purchased. Several are more expensive on the Kindle than they are in the bookstore. The logic there escapes me. Frankly, it's because of greed that things like this fail. There's no reason why data-only content should exceed hardcopy pricing. It shouldn't be anywhere close. You can't transfer it, you can't loan it to a friend, you can't sell it back later, and the costs of production are nonexistent. I spend a couple hundred dollars a month on books alone. Price isn't usually something I pay close attention to. However, the pricing on this is insulting. While I don't mind paying a premium for convenience, with online shopping and cheap express shipping, this doesn't come close to making sense. Paying these prices would make me feel gullible and stupid. Until the price-gouging stops, I'll stick with traditional books. At least those won't be outdated or useless and can be lent out to friends. Hopefully some day media companies will catch on to the real world and offer affordable reasonable products via online delivery. But all the hype and Amazon marketing in the world wouldn't get me to buy this.