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Old 16th February 2013
agshekeloh agshekeloh is offline
Real Name: Michael W Lucas
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Default How book prices are set

Book prices are set based on physical size and the time to produce them. And guesswork, and seeing what similar books are going for, and the Amazon Discount Effect. But $100 books are not uncommon.

I find $100 books outrageous.

I push for my books to be relatively inexpensive, compared to most other computer books. I firmly believe that the best piracy defense is to charge a modest price, but write a sufficiently good book that you make it up on volume. If a sysadmin or company won't cough up ~$40 for a book on how to work more efficiently and save tens of thousands of dollars (compared to commercial software), well, to heck with them.

If you use the ILUVMICHAEL coupon code from my page and buy from http://www.nostarch.com/openbsd2e, you'll get the physical book and the ebook for about $40, including shipping. I think that's a decent deal for a doorstop of professional knowledge. (Plus, the coupon code puts a couple extra bucks in my pocket, which I greatly appreciate.)
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