I know that when we went in August I paid just under $40 with tax for 2 of the gold autograph books. I can't remember the exact price, but $17 sounds right. They are really nice, but we were disappointed that they only hold about 13 pictures. Our boys had 2 blue autograph books that they forgot in our rental car and I didn't want to purchase the same ones in the park again. We ended up having to buy another blue one that afternoon because they had filled up their gold ones. We were going to a character dinner that night and wanted to have one for those autographs too (the boys shared that one). We made sure to have all 3 blue books in our back pack the next day!