Now you feel the pain of Canadian book-buyers everywhere... with a Canadian dollar hovering near $0.90USD... we still get shafted on print materials. The $24.95 price tag on the Buddha hardbacks should only be $28 CDN.... but they're selling for $34.95
Luckily the online market is a little more flexible... but the $16 books you bought still cost me $25 from Amazon.ca
It also galls me that most of these books are actually printed in Canada in the first place!
I know all about currency exchange rates and what not... but I'd say my $25 is just as valuable to me in Canada as yours is in the USA...
Oh... and just to make sure this post doesn't go off-topic. Buddha was still worth it!