12-21-2011, 02:05 AM | #16 |
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For what it is worth I was appalled at the prices of books in Australia when we returned here from Canada in 2000. Not surprisingly I did not develop the slightest scrap of customer loyalty, even to a very good bookseller in Launceston who is doing the best he can.
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12-21-2011, 02:25 AM | #17 |
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Hachette website gives this :-
Phone and fax Phone: 02 8248 0800 Fax: 02 8248 0810 Customer Service: 02 4390 1300 (International: +61 2 4390 1300) Customer Service Fax: 1800 664 477 Key peopleManaging Director Malcolm Edwards Finance Director David Cocking IT Manager Michael Swarbrick Australian Publishing Publishing Director Fiona Hazard Publishing & Production Manager Anne Macpherson Publisher Bernadette Foley Publisher Vanessa Radnidge Non Fiction Publisher Matthew Kelly Children’s Publisher (Lothian Children’s Books) Jon Appleton Sales & Marketing Hodder & Headline Sales & Marketing Director Matt Richell Little, Brown & Orion Sales & Marketing Director Matt Hoy Publicity Hodder & Headline Publicity Manager Judy Jamieson-Green Little, Brown & Orion Publicity Manager Jaki Arthur Hachette Children’s Books Publicity Theresa Bray Hachette Children’s Books Hachette Children’s Books Director Chris Raine Marketing/Administration Manager Christine Fairbrother Email contacts For title and purchasing information, price and availability, Customer Service: email adscs@alliancedist.com.au General enquiries: email hsales@hachette.com.au Accounts enquiries: email accounts@hachette.com.au Australian Publishing enquiries: email auspub@hachette.com.au Rights enquiries: email rights@hachette.com.au Publicity Email Contacts For publicity enquiries (including all cover scans, media releases, author enquires), please email publicity@hachette.com.au or contact the appropriate Publicity Manager or Publicist. Hodder & Headline Judy Jamieson-Green, Publicity Manager Brendan Fredericks, Publicist Little, Brown & Orion Jaki Arthur, Publicity Manager Laura Gale, Publicist |
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12-21-2011, 03:06 AM | #18 |
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South Africa is in a similar situation. The ebooks (those available locally) tend to be more expensive than their paper counterparts. That's one of the reasons I've largely reverted back to paper.
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12-21-2011, 10:11 AM | #19 | |
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If it is on books that sell well then it seems small because it has to cover the books that they loose money on. |
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12-21-2011, 10:26 AM | #20 | |
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You try to dare justify such rip-offs to the Australian consumer? The facts are plain and the evidence clear. Australians know they are being ripped off and more and more are turning to online purchasing. Why should we pay double the price that other countries pay? |
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12-21-2011, 10:30 AM | #21 |
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12-21-2011, 11:05 AM | #22 |
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12-21-2011, 12:43 PM | #23 |
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12-21-2011, 08:38 PM | #24 |
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12-21-2011, 09:57 PM | #25 |
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Count the Australian cities in the list compared with others. There were more off the page and they only listed the top 50 most expensive cities in the world to live. A recent comparison of IKEA stores showed that Australians pay between 2 and 3 times the price of goods in those stores compared with the US or Sweden.
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12-21-2011, 10:06 PM | #26 |
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Yep, so it is certainly crazy for low margin publishing businesses in Australia to be in Sydney or Melbourne.
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12-21-2011, 10:22 PM | #27 |
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I would certainly agree with Perth getting far more expensive to live.
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12-22-2011, 12:10 AM | #28 | |
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The only book I have bought from an Australian bookstore recently was a university textbook (at rip-off prices) mainly because they were using one I couldn't source from Amazon. As more and more Australians learn to use online shopping services (and I would say the majority already do so) the retailers are going to have to compete or sink. And if ebooks have geographic restrictions on them they will soon learn how to by-pass this! |
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12-22-2011, 12:22 AM | #29 |
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The Book Depository was pretty good on textbooks I found. And you can check the UK and US sites, likewise to get the best deal. And abebooks.com can be worth it for that. You never know when an enterprising Indian might be selling one of their versions.
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12-22-2011, 01:29 AM | #30 | |
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http://www.pc.gov.au/projects/study/books Personally, I won't pay that much for books any more, and if there are Australian authors who aren't published overseas and can *only* be bought at the inflated prices, well, that's what libraries are for. On a trip to the US last year I came back with a suitcase full of books - and that is not an exaggeration. |
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