The paperback edition of Networked: The New Social Operating System (Rainie & Wellman) appeared for Valentine's Day. If you order one today, I will sing to you the next time we meet (some may call this a negative inducement.) So I started exploring the pricing http://www.amazon.com/Networked-New-Social-Operating-System/dp/0262526166/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=1-1&qid=1336500288 The Amazon.com pricing is intriguing. Paperback: US$14.19 Hardcover: US$20.04 (up a buck from last week - you'd think they'd want to clear out the Hards) Kindle: US$16.33 Even more intrigue. The Canadian price is even cheaper than the US Hardcover: Cdn $19.75; (aobut US$17.80) Paperback: Cdn $13.68 But Kindle more expensive: $18.02 Given that the Cdn dollar is now about 90cents in US$, it is cheaper for Canadians to order locally, but not for Americans to do so (shipping costs). UK harcover price, as always, is higher: L14.04 (US$23.50) NO paperback yet Kindle is: L12.64 (US$21) -- and of course, e-shipping is the same as in the US and Canada Japanese price is Y2853 for hardback (about US$28),with no pb listed. BTW: There is a hard-hitting article in the current New Yorker about Amazon's dealing with publishers. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $20 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________