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Originally Posted by caleb72
If you're in Australia you quite often get books prices $15 and over for Kindle. It's the latest in the "make them pay" antics of publishers such as Hachette
eg...
Omnibus of A Fire upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky costs $32.95 in Australia.
Pre-order of Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312 costs $18.95
... We're starting to see this more and more in Australia which is why faking a US address is a more and more attractive proposition. You get the books they block from Australia and at a better price.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Those appear to be primarily newly-published books, which are only out in hardback. Prices will generally fall drastically when the paperback is released.
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Having lived in both the US and Australia, paperback books are
also priced massively higher in Australia.
The new editions of A Fire Upon the Deep and a Deepness in the Sky are $8.99 each at the US Agency price, so that is $18 vs $33 in Oz.
Even if "its priced assuming the current exchange rates won't last", the exchange rate can't be all of that, as at US$0.80 the A$ for that US price would still only be A$22.50.
And its an Omnibus, which ought to be cheaper than the two titles bought individually.
Similar story for the Kim Stanley Robinson title: the US pre-order is $13. Even using a notional US$0.80 exchange rate (at the moment the ozzie is above parity), that's only A$16.25, not $19.