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Originally Posted by peegee
Just for interest, here are the current prices on Amazon UK for the top 10 bestselling hardback fiction books (according to the Times weekly bestseller lists)
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HB Kindle % Difference Title
6.00 10.99 83 The Faithless/Marina Cole
6.00 8.99 50 Red Mist/Patricia Cornwell
8.99 5.99 -33 Snuff/Terry Pratchett
8.55 6.64 -22 Death Comes to Pemberley/PD James
8.20 9.99 22 11.22.63/Stephen King
7.00 10.99 57 The Litigators/John Grisham
8.30 9.99 20 The House of Silk/Anthony Horowitz
6.49 5.59 -14 The Sense of an Ending/Julian Barnes
9.41 9.99 6 The Thread/Victora Hislop
8.49 4.99 -41 The Time of my Life/Cecelia Ahern
77.43 84.15 9 TOTAL
As you can see, 6 of the 10 are more expensive in kindle format. (Prices for kobo books are either the same as kindle or slightly more expensive - the total for all 10 from kobo is 87.07.) |
That's interesting, ok the hardback prices are all heavily discounted, but that makes for pretty miserable reading. And is exactly why I simply won't buy any newly released ebooks. I'll need to wait for them to come down in price. It'll also just encourage people to look at getting the books some other way..... no lessons learned about pricing from other digital media?