One of the biggest complaints people have had about the Kindle listings is that they were a one-way trip to the Kindle sandbox. If a hardcover or paperback linked to a kindle edition, then once clicked on it, you could not see the other editions and clicking the author's name only showed you their Kindle editions (and this part is still true). Now, however, you can click on the paper edition link, then the author name to get a listing of their books that are in print (still an important source for many books, as even the Kindle store is only a small step towards digitizing all books currently in print (a task that will take years, just due to the copyright laws and various reversion of rights to authors or their estates since the 1920's).With the new links to paper editions, you'll no longer feel like Amazon is hiding the comparisons. Often when a book that has been available in hardcover is released in paperback, the Kindle price takes a while to update (after all, a new edition isn't really needed, with an ebook). And for some books, that never hit the bestseller lists (and the $9.99 price break those get), there is often not as much of a discount from the "list" price as you think, since the hardcover is almost always discounted at Amazon as well.
As you can see from this second picture, the Kindle edition of Scourge of God was only discounted a bit under $3, not the $11 difference from the "digital list" price. You can also see that the paperback has now been released and the ebook price hasn't been changed (to be fair, this one was released on paperback only two days ago). The next book in the same series, The Sword of the Lady, has the $9.99 pricing (I suspect due to being a new release, not the bestseller lists, although Scourge was listed at that price for a short time, as well.As of today, you can finally make an informed decision before one-clicking that Kindle edition, without having to work at it. At least, if you buy via the web site - the Kindle Store displayed on the Kindle itself still ignores all other editions on it's book listings. However, you can use the Basic Web to look up the paper book prices (and the Kindle versions now display there too -- you just can't purchase them in Basic Web; you can add them to your wishlist, however).
