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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
An example I love to cite: Steig Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is $13.50 from Penguin Canada and that's the price at the till at my local Chapters/Indigo. This is a flimsy mass market edition, not a handsome, better bound trade edition. Yet Penguin Canada will sell me the same novel at $7.99 from kobobooks and $7.65 from Amazon -- Penguin Canada editions each. (The hard cover is $32.)
Penguin is one of the "agency five" and both Kobo and Amazon "did the deal". I am simply not seeing the impact except possibly in a handful of just released titles which the publishers believe they can sell at $12.99 and higher. They're wrong: I am simply redeploying my funds to something cheaper in the meantime and will buy those titles later when they are more reasonable and assuming I am still interested.
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Question. Is Penguin Canada an agency 5 publisher? (Penguin US is, but Penguin UK is not). Are the ebook copies available to you for sure from Penguin? Penguin Ca lists the price of the ebook as $13.50
The US publisher is Random House and not an Agency publisher and the prices you mention sound in line with the US pricing.
Pretty much any Agency priced book in the US is either the same as the list price of the paper edition or $1 less (occasionally $2 less) and sometimes up to $5 more than the print copy (example Naamah's Kiss by Jacqueline Carey). This applies to books that have a mass market version out.