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Originally Posted by carpetmojo
The 5th book in George R Martin's "Ice & Fire " series is out - with the hardback slashed immediately, so it would seem.
Hardback is "slashed" in UK on Amazon and W'stones from £25 to £12-50.
I get the odd decent textile reference book from "remainder" stores, and these are often sold @ 50% reduction straight from the presses - they are made to sell for this price from the start, basically.
I think it's a bit early for Martin's tome, isn't it ? Or is he not as popular in Europe as the States ?
The paperback is £7-99 (one "used" for £1,191 !) but guess what ?
The kindle edition is £11-99, a whopping .51p less than the hardback.
What a bargain......
And what an interesting pricing strategy....  |
Despite what it says, the hardback has been £12.50, if ordered in advance, since announced as coming on Waterstones and then two weeks ago listed as £12.50 on release... pricing very rarely has anything to do with popularity these days, more a case of see how many you can shift in the first week or two.
And George is just as popular in the genre buyers in the UK as the US...
Paperback should be interesting, it's not out until 27th September so that's £7.99 for advance order... the £1,191 copy is actually a bargain if you can get the seller to use the required time machine to get a newspaper from the release date as well as the book... for delivery this week!
