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Originally Posted by sabredog
I cannot remember the last time I purchased a dead tree book locally.
I did try till this Christmas, but have now given up. Too expensive even if they are actually available to buy.
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The last time I bought one locally was a new release from Kmart. They usually have them for around the $18 which is ok I guess if you really want a new paperback.
What made me absolutely laugh was when the wife went to buy Michelle Bridges Crunch Time book. Now title and content aside (yes she is on a health kick), but when it was released the cheapest she could buy it here in Australia was $34.95. She ended up buying it from Book Depository for just over $16 or $18 (I forget which, but either way around 50% of the local price).
Now the sad thing about that is, the book is written by an Australian author, printed and published in Australia, and we bought it for half the price after it was printed, boxed, shipped to the UK, mark up added, and shipped back to us in Australia, than we could from anyone in Australia.....and all they had to do was ship it from NSW and not to and from one end of the world.
Import restrictions may be a reasonable excuse for some sellers and to an extent it probably holds some truth, but I still maintain that by living in the lucky country retail outlets feel they have the right to price gouge. Now don't get me started on DVDs that are one week selling for $34.95, then $14.95 on sale the next week only to go back up to $34.95 after the sale.