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Old 12-08-2010, 11:15 AM   #1
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$32.79 for an ebook?
Why does Bryce Courtenay's book, Fortune Cookie, cost $32.79 at Kobo? And it's on sale from $47.42! Is it the foreign rights, exchange rate, greedy author?

And why does Barnes & Noble and Amazon not carry it?

Just curious as to how these ebooks are being priced and distributed these days. Any thoughts?

Here's the link to the book.
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Old 12-08-2010, 11:44 AM   #2
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that is an awful lot for an ebook! anecdotally in the past (I'm not sure if it still happens) occasionally in the kindle store s price would be crazy high. apparently if Amazon was alerted to the situation they would lower it.

I'm not familiar with Kobo and how it works, but the only book I could find at Amazon by the same author was The Power of One listed for 10.20. it sells for $22 at Kobo

edit: a book by the same author sold at both sites
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Old 12-08-2010, 11:45 AM   #3
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Old 12-08-2010, 11:54 AM   #4
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I looked on Dymocks, and the hardback list price is $49.95 (AUD). They are not selling the ebook, which is strange since it is published by Penguin Group Australia. Some other hardbacks seemed to be in the $50 range, so perhaps this is just how books are priced in Australia.
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Old 12-08-2010, 11:57 AM   #5
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That's a big discount from the $65.63 hardcover!
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Old 12-08-2010, 12:02 PM   #6
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I looked on Dymocks, and the hardback list price is $49.95 (AUD). They are not selling the ebook, which is strange since it is published by Penguin Group Australia. Some other hardbacks seemed to be in the $50 range, so perhaps this is just how books are priced in Australia.
From what I gather reading other threads on this site, books are priced like this in Australia. It seems to be one of the reasons so many Aussies like ebooks, because they're so much cheaper. According to my very scientific and well-researched analysis on the subject.
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From what I gather reading other threads on this site, books are priced like this in Australia. It seems to be one of the reasons so many Aussies like ebooks, because they're so much cheaper. According to my very scientific and well-researched analysis on the subject.
I was shocked, shocked!, by the price of books on a visit to Australia a couple of years ago.

Of course, pretty much everything in Australia is more expensive than in the US, but books were 2-3 times as much as they cost over here.
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that is an awful lot for an ebook! anecdotally in the past (I'm not sure if it still happens) occasionally in the kindle store s price would be crazy high. apparently if Amazon was alerted to the situation they would lower it.

I'm not familiar with Kobo and how it works, but the only book I could find at Amazon by the same author was The Power of One listed for 10.20. it sells for $22 at Kobo

edit: a book by the same author sold at both sites
I noticed that on Barnes and Noble too, if you see a price like $19.99 or something one day, wait a couple days and it's down to normal like $9.99
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That is way more than I would ever pay for a book. Even if I really, really wanted to read it.

. . . even if I lived in Australia.
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I was shocked, shocked!, by the price of books on a visit to Australia a couple of years ago.

Of course, pretty much everything in Australia is more expensive than in the US, but books were 2-3 times as much as they cost over here.
No trees so they have to make books out of kangaroos and catching the buggers takes a lot of effort? It seems like the simplest explanation doesn’t it?
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How about this one? It is on sale for $6,431.20

http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Nucle...1854086&sr=1-1
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How about this one? It is on sale for $6,431.20

http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Nucle...1854086&sr=1-1
hey! such a deal! 2k off the hard cover!
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That is way more than I would ever pay for a book. Even if I really, really wanted to read it.

. . . even if I lived in Australia.


We become desperate - desperate I tell you!!!

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PatNY, try Borders AU. It has the ePUB for $29.95 AUD (I know, still not that cheap), but I don't know if it'll be geo-restricted.

Why is the ebook so steep in price? The ePUB is close to the price for a new release mainstream trade paperback here. I guess the local publishers still want to treat ebooks like physical books.

Why are physical books so expensive here? Although there's some arguments to be made for economy of scale, most of it I really think is due to the stranglehold that local publishers have here. We currently have parallel importation restrictions, meaning that local bricks-and-mortar booksellers aren't allowed to sell overseas editions of books (e.g. American, British) when local publishers have the rights to publish and sell their own editions of these books here. The federal government was considering a few years ago to remove such restrictions so that local booksellers could remain competitive by importing cheaper, overseas versions, as more and more Australians turned (and still do turn) to ordering overseas from Amazon and the Book Depository. Local publishers and some local authors lobbied successfully against this however, claiming that allowing overseas imports to be sold in retail would destroy the local industry and stunt the growth of Australian literature.

I would like to support the local book industry, but being like any other person here who loves reading, if I can get three physical books from the UK-based Book Depository for the cost of one book from a local retail store such as Dymocks, I'll go for the Book Depository.
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