I wasn't planning on buying - or reading, to be honest, given my non-academic status - this book, but it sounded interesting enough for me to want to take a look at the table of contents. So I looked it up on Amazon. The $93 price (marked down from $125 - hey, 30% off!) suggests mainly libraries will buy the hardcover edition.

Then I noticed that there's a Kindle version. No printing, no binding, no covers, meant for the individual reader - that has to be cheaper, right?

And it is: only $83.97! The e-book revolution has not quite arrived.