Prices outside the US.
Greetings,
I'm currently trying to understand the cost differences between the US Store and in my case the Australian store. I've looked at some books and see the following situation:
Free (public domain books) - $0.00 to $2.00 varies, six months ago most of the public domain books were all $2, now most are literally free.
Cheaper (Jan Strnad's Risen) US 3.89, AU 5.89 (+$2 difference)
"Popular" random price difference
US 9.99 AU 10.12 Dan Brown - Lost Symbol (+13cents)
US 9.99 AU 10.46 Stieg Larsson - The Girl who kicked the hornets nest (+47cents)
US 7.99 AU 10.46 Stieg Larsson - The girl who played with fire (+$2.47)
US 7.14 AU 9.15 Stieg Larsson - The girl with the dragon tattoo (+$2.01)
US 9.99 AU 9.88 Wilbur Smith - Assegai (-11cents)
Now all these prices are in USD (as the Australian kindle store still charges and displays as USD, so it's not an exchange rate thing), colour me confused I was under the impression prior to the announcement of the K3-WiFi there was an extra $2 added to the price of all kindle books in the Australian store to cover whispernet delivery over 3G.
However I now have absolutely no idea what's going on with the prices as they seem random, and in some cases price gouge like and even one book for cheaper?!.
Last edited by malliemcg; 08-11-2010 at 12:10 AM.
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