Report: Harper Collins, Apple negotiating tablet deal

I second Benoit's point. Kindle books are not at all what I'd consider cheap. Another Example - Martin's A Feast For Crows (http://is.gd/6Bjvy) is $7.99 for trade paperback edition, and $6.39 for the Kindle edition. A $1.60 savings is not that big of a bargain.

Or, The Shadow of the Wind (http://is.gd/6BkQP) - $10.40 paperback, $9.36 kindle.

The other problem with Kindle and other ebooks - I have hundreds of books, many of them that I'd like to be able to read on a Nook or iSlate, or whatever; but I certainly am not going to go out and buy a book again just to be able to do so. Ideally, there ought to be some way to get a digital copy of a book you've bought already (though I cannot think of any practical way you could do so).

I don't think that the author has shopped for kindle book recently or he wouldn't have mentioned "uber cheap prices"
Yesterday I wanted to buy several novels but most of those I was interested in were more expensive than their paperback counterpart! I have a hard time understanding why.

Let's look at a concrete example (books I wanted to buy) the "Wi'tch" serie (https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=Wit%27ch+Fire&x=0&y=0) except for the first book of the serie which is significantly cheaper than the paperback, every other book in the serie is more expensive than the paperback. How can this be called dirt cheap!

I dunno if I'd call the ebook prices for the Nook & Kindle "über-cheap" or not. Quite frankly, I think they should be set at least a dollar *below* the list price for a paperback. Think of all the money they're saving on printing, transportation, and shelf space by not having to produce a physical object...