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Originally Posted by HarleyB
I found the same thing happened here in Australia when I compared the prices on borders.com.au and kobobooks.com - even though the kobo store knew I was in Australia and the kobo prices were in AUD$ they were often (but not always) much much cheaper than Borders.
Now I just shop around and buy my books from the cheapest source and use ADE to load them onto the my Kobo. Sometimes that cheapest source is Amazon and so then I need to use Calibre to convert. But it's not consistent - you do need to check prices.
An example Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher book The Affair (prices all AUD$) $9.99 at Amazon, $10.00 at Kobo, and $23.00 at Borders. I used a 20% off code and got it for $8 at Kobo.
The latest John Grisham The Litigators was $9.99 as a preorder at Amazon and is now $13.40, but at Kobo it is $29.99 - even the 30% off code I was hoping to use isn't worth it there - and I'm kicking myself for cancelling my preorder. Borders don't even have it listed.
Can you log in directly with kobobooks.com? It could be worth it.
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OK. I see now. I'm going to have to get more savvy. Bypass the Whitcoulls/Borders alliance and shop overseas. The same problem has been aired here in NZ recently in relation to pricing of software purchased online. Pricing gets inflated once the worker ants send signals to the queen ant that you are purchasing down-under.
I'll try logging into kobobooks directly but will be surprised if I can do that, guessing my details are locked into some dark cyber-dungeon and any break out would trigger an inter-ant response!
Thanks for the advice will get to work and see how it goes.
