Reality Disconnect

Spook Country by William Gibson for $25.95 (sale price) or $23.36 (newsletter price)? Sounds pretty good...until you realize that this is an eBook you're buying and you can find a copy of the hardcover for significantly less than either of those prices in your local store (and save even more if you are a member of one of the big box chain clubs).

Reality check, please!

Addendum (November 28, 2008): I've found dozens of more examples of this...plus examples of books that have gone from hardcover to paperback, with their eBooks never dropping in price. Almost as bad are cases where one or two of the books in a series are available as an eBook, but not the other books in the series. William Gibson is (again) an example of this, with books in both the Sprawl and Bridge series' missing volumes.