That's an odd rant. The same argument could be made for any popular author (King, Rowling, Peterson, etc). The eBooks are priced that way because the estate is

That's an odd rant. The same argument could be made for any popular author (King, Rowling, Peterson, etc). The eBooks are priced that way because the estate is afraid of devaluing the Bond brand. (Publishers know that eBook pricing is a race to the bottom and they don't want to get there too soon.) Bond is like Batman or Holmes. Three generations going and his adventures are still published and republished in hardback, special editions, omnibuses, and variant cover paperbacks. There's also a lucrative secondary market of neverending sequels and spinoffs. The estate doesn't want to screw Penguin on pricing by offering an electronic version at $2 when the dead tree version is $15. That undercuts the publisher across the entire line of Bond products.