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kiwipippa · 10-26-2011, 02:45 PM

I have just moaned about this on kobo's facebook page. John Grisham's new book The Litigators is $39.99 New Zealand dollars (about $32 USD)! I can buy the kindle version for $13 USD - same edition, same book, same market. It's an agency priced book which makes no sense as I thought agency pricing meant the same price within the same market. I guess that excludes Amazon!

Kobo are pricing themselves out of the NZ market. I have tried to be patient with them as they move to agency pricing and have had numerous contacts with them via Nathan Maharaj who is great - but has not made any difference. I'm afraid this latest discrepancy is the last straw for me, ages since I have read a kepub. I shop around - and at the moment buy almost exclusively kindle and convert.

Also, the emails I receive from kobo always include pricing for the US market - which is substantially different from the NZ market. Not sure if this is because I bought my kobo from borders (the emails are branded kobo however). I always ignore pricing in the emails and go purely off the website. And I never buy from Whitcoulls either - too expensive again!

10-26-2011, 02:45 PM	#7
kiwipippa Fanatic Posts: 578 Karma: 613022 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: New Zealand Device: kobo glo, kobo touch (dead), kindle touch, android phone	I have just moaned about this on kobo's facebook page. John Grisham's new book The Litigators is $39.99 New Zealand dollars (about $32 USD)! I can buy the kindle version for $13 USD - same edition, same book, same market. It's an agency priced book which makes no sense as I thought agency pricing meant the same price within the same market. I guess that excludes Amazon! Kobo are pricing themselves out of the NZ market. I have tried to be patient with them as they move to agency pricing and have had numerous contacts with them via Nathan Maharaj who is great - but has not made any difference. I'm afraid this latest discrepancy is the last straw for me, ages since I have read a kepub. I shop around - and at the moment buy almost exclusively kindle and convert. Also, the emails I receive from kobo always include pricing for the US market - which is substantially different from the NZ market. Not sure if this is because I bought my kobo from borders (the emails are branded kobo however). I always ignore pricing in the emails and go purely off the website. And I never buy from Whitcoulls either - too expensive again!