Please Someone Buy This $200 E-Book

By Meaghan O'Connell January 30, 2014

Via the Paris Review Daily’s roundup of very expensive ebooks, I bring you this gem, titled “The Amazon’s most expensive book (Arabic edition).” Behold the product description:

This book is one of the most expensive available on Amazon in Kindle version. It does not exist on paper version. It caters to the richest people. Those who can buy it without flinching. It is not for the poor, stingy, or for those who count their money.

Therefore, please do not buy this book if you do not have enough money on your bank account. If you are not wealthy but think you can read this book and ask for a refund afterwards, give up immediately, you are not the readership target.

Any unusual thing is expensive! This is the law of supply and demand. Only a privileged few can buy and read this book. The others: go your way. Many free books are available for your long winter evenings. However, if you have a lot of money, and if the price of this book does not disturb you more than that, welcome and good reading.

Of course my first instinct when I saw this was to gchat Mike Dang about it, to which he said:

Mike: This reminds me of one of the first stories I got published in The Chicago Tribune
Mike: This lady became a millionaire
me: wow
Mike: Selling a book called “Everything Men Know About Women”
And it was literally a book with all blank pages

Now your first question might be, “Where can I pay $4.49 for this book?” and that would be valid. (Ahem.)

But there is a more important question, and it is: “MIKE DANG, IS THERE A GOD AND IS THE ARTICLE ONLINE?”

Yes and yes! Byline: Michael Dang, published March 30, 2007, and about couples flying into space to get married.

And if anyone wants to thank us for these internet gifts we’ve just bestowed upon you, BUY THAT $200 BOOK. And then tell us about it.

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