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Most UK book publishers aren't under Murdoch - are you talking about newspapers and media? I'm a bit confused by these replies. UK publishers feel they have their prices dictated by Amazon, who are American, and that it's hard to compete and sell books using ePub on other websites because the Amazon Kindle market dominates so much.
You can see by some of my other replies how furious publishers like me are that Amazon pays lower commission for Australia and other countries and would create a situation where some publishers would have to charge higher prices. If they pay for editing, proofreading, and the Kindle conversion, they couldn't recuperate it if Amazon only give them 35% in Australia.
So it's an American company causing this problem. My company doesn't charge a higher price in Australia despite the low commission Amazon gives us there because I feel our books should have a consistent price - but they are the seller so you'd need to tell me if you see a higher price on our books. We certainly didn't set it. They are the shop, not us. We set one price across all countries.
We have a great love of Australia. Are we really hated so much there?
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