Bargain!
Amazon is currently selling The Bayesian Choice at a bargain price of $32.97, a rebate of 40% on the list price! And this is the hardcover version… When I first saw the hardcover versions, I thought the printer had made a mistake but this is not a mistake! (While I did not design the cover of this third version of The Bayesian Choice, this is my favorite one. Good thing I did not turn to design rather than statistics.) The Bayesian Choice is thus 
cheaper than Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R despite being more than twice longer and hardcover… Note also that Springer introduced a paperback version of Monte Carlo Statistical Methods but it is surprisingly more expensive than the hardcover on Amazon ($109 versus $76).
Xi'an's Og 
May 15, 2010 at 5:14 pm
Hi,
Just wanted to let you know that the Amazon.com version is in softcover, in spite of what their description says.
May 17, 2010 at 8:08 am
Thank you! My impression is that the process is utterly random: I have seen some copies with softcover and others with hard covers… Maybe running a negative binomial experiment would see how often the printer uses a hardcover.
May 12, 2010 at 12:52 am
A quick way to get a feel for the price of a book is to use booko.com.au:
The Bayesian Choice. I’m finding that either Amazon US or The Book Deospitory UK wins.