Yeah Sam, lots of the ones that I've gotten are listed as $10 USD, or $13 CAD (they totally rip you off in Canada), but on a good sale I can still get them around 6-7 USD. The difference between USD and CAD is around 3% right now, so it doesn't make a big difference.
No they just rip us off. For some reason they are still often using the same pricing margins that they did over a decade ago, when the Canadian dollar was much weaker than the US dollar. It is slowly improving, but it is still cheaper to buy in the US (or UK, even).
I think not actually that many people steal all their books though. But I guess Kindle does probably get a decent amount of business. I don't mind reading on the computer, but it is more relaxing to hold a book I think.
Hmm yeah... books are nice... and it isnt really about stealing?.. Just that its more... simple... to just have a dozen books on a machine than a dozen in your bag...