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Originally Posted by HarryT
You have awfully expensive taste in books. There are very few ebooks that cost $25. eBooks typically cost well under $10, except for new releases when the paper book is only out in hardback. Wait for the paperback release and the ebook will fall correspondingly.
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Originally Posted by Asawi
Only true for English language books.
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There's also those of us poor suckers living in the Antipodes. I've seen new release ebooks over $30 quite regularly, and that's often still cheaper than the standard new hardback price of $45. Yes, really. And that is for novels. It's worse with non-fiction. And that's with the Australian dollar being currently worth more than the US dollar. There's a reason I came back from my holiday there with a suitcase full of books, literally.
An example:
An Australian author, Peter Fitzsimons, has a couple of books published in 2011. Batavia (March) is available in hardback at Dymocks for (presumably the publisher's RRP) $49.95. It's available from Dymocks as an ADE epub for $32.94. Mawson (November) is available in hardback also for $49.95 and not available at Dymocks in digital. Kobo offers Batavia at $21.59 and Mawson at $24.63, and possibly eligible for discount coupons. Both are published by Random House.
Even looking at books a few years after release Australians still typically pay more than $10 for ebooks. That includes genre fiction. A quick search on Kobo brings up the following:
Charlaine Harris (vampires) - Sookie Stackhouse novels for typically $11.99 - and not the most recent ones which are more expensive
Peter F Hamilton (SF) - mostly $12.99, although a couple of his more well-known are cheaper (!)
Maeve Binchy (women's fiction) - standard $12.72 with Kobo offering $9.59
Terry Pratchett (comic fantasy) - as for Maeve Binchy
Guy Gavriel Kay (high fantasy) - $10.99
Elizabeth Moon (space opera) - $11.99
And that is why I love my libraries!