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ya, i'm not impressed to be honest with the online price of the epubs. 14.99 for a digital edition book when the paperback costs 7.99? Not to mention it seems there's a margin for Canadian purchases making it a lil more expensive (or i'm missing something).
I know this isn't Kobo's fault itself. But there's a huge discrepancy on the kobobooks website and the kobo reader's webstore. I just looked up "a Dance with Dragons". yes, i'm one of those nuts, And the kobobooks site lists it at 9.99. the webstore has it listed for 14.99. Thats a big and significant difference!
but as to prices. Why are the average book so expensive in epub format? the overhead for distribution of an epub is significantly lower than actual book. there's no paper to procure. no printing needed, no shipping of heavy items, no warehousing or stocking, no store shelves to stock. its purely a matter of server space and bandwith. Yet these books are barely cheaper, and sometimes more expensive!
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