Amazon is really used to multiple prices for slightly varying formats or different editions, so I'm not actually all that surprised to see Kindle reissues at differing prices. I actually noticed it as I was going through my wishlist a week or two back -- I think doing a bit of birthday money pre-shopping, figuring out what I wanted to buy the most -- and noticed some items on my wishlist were no longer available. The editions I'd originally wishlisted were no longer available -- but I was able to find all of the titles in question, still in Kindle format, just in different editions. I think there was some standardizing and consolidation of format going on -- and I suspect those pricier earlier Kindle versions of the Discworld books may gradually disappear and be entirely replaced by the new black-cover versions.
Then again, I tried to buy Jingo before leaving for my grandfather's a few days ago (the internet access and phone signal at his house being shoddy and intermittent) and shopping via my Kindle app it was only the $8 version that was showing up in my search. I came in to work today and did some searching around and was able to refind the $5 black-cover version -- notice A) how there are fifty jillion versions of the title and B) how the black-cover version shows the $8 e-book but the $8 e-book doesn't show the $5 version.
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Date: 2011-10-25 10:12 pm (UTC)Then again, I tried to buy Jingo before leaving for my grandfather's a few days ago (the internet access and phone signal at his house being shoddy and intermittent) and shopping via my Kindle app it was only the $8 version that was showing up in my search. I came in to work today and did some searching around and was able to refind the $5 black-cover version -- notice A) how there are fifty jillion versions of the title and B) how the black-cover version shows the $8 e-book but the $8 e-book doesn't show the $5 version.