Publishers are stupid

The Kindle edition is more expensive than the paperback edition... Seeing this actually put me off from buying the book. How dumb is that? And I'm not even talking about the fact that distribution costs from the US to France are, like, times less expensive for the electronic version.

Add to this that the French version of the book isn't available in the iBooks store (it does exist in paperback version). Publishing houses, please get your shit together!