Thread: Yet another thumb of the nose from publishers
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Old 10-12-2010, 02:28 PM   #110
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Originally Posted by murraypaul View Post
I'll post my price checks again:
Steven Fry's new autobiography is £6.30 Amazon for the Kindle version. At Waterstones it is £14 for the ePub.
Tony Blair's new autobiography is £7 for the Kindle version. At Waterstones it is £15 for the ePub.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is £2.68 Kindle at Amazon. At Waterstones it is £5.50 for the ePub.
Eat Pray Love is £3.11 Kindle at Amazon. At Waterstones it is £8.85 for the ePub.

I think the majority of consumers, if told that store B was charging more than twice as much as store A for an equivalent product would decide that store B was attempting to rip them off, and would not only shop at store A instead for this product, but would form an adverse opinion of store B and be less likely to shop there in the future.
I'm thinking Amazon is selling some below cost as they did in US before agency pricing to gain market share.
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