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Originally Posted by sabredog
Our dollar is better than yours... So prices should be cheaper regardless of any taxes.
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Exchange rates don't equal purchasing power.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/daily.../big-mac-index
Just ask the poor downtrodded (non-kindle) european ebook reader buyers.
Agency pricing has already done its (unintended work) in establishing a baseline (70-30) for rational publishers to build their ebook business off.
That djinn is out of the bottle and the traditional publishers are discovering that as ebooks make a bigger and bigger part of the pie, authors arren't going to be all that happy with 17% of the take when they can readily get 60-70% elsewhere.