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Originally Posted by kiwipippa
Molman,
Here's the A Dance with Dragons publisher details for the Amazon book - same as yours in Australia:
Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 2166 KB
Print Length: 1040 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0002247399
Publisher: Harper Voyager (July 12, 2011)
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
Language: English
ASIN: B004XISI4A
The kobo one is:
HarperCollins Publishers, July 2011
ISBN: 9780007442454
And the Now you See Her is the same as yours - Amazon is Cornerstone, Kobo is Random House. That also doesn't make much sense - I thought a publisher had "exclusive" rights in a region. How can two publishers share the same rights? Maybe they are part of the same group.
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Hmm.. interesting. Well count yourself lucky, for whatever reason it seems Amazon is likely setting the price for GRRM:aDwD for you (NZ region), whilst for us in AU the publisher has dictated a price (hence why it says "This price was set by the publisher" under the price for me. I believe in the infancy of the Kindle store AU uses tended to get the US prices, but I guess the local/regional divisions of the publishers weren't happy about the effect on their efforts. Lots of politics regarding meeting targets etc. in these big old companies.
RE: "Now you see her", you are right, Cornerstone is part of the Random House Group (see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House), still it seems like the dynamics are different for some of the Kindle releases. I get the sense there is a more independent negotiation, verses a more generic/dictated price for the .epub retailers.