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Local currency it seems, but not with the Bug Jack Barron example.
e.g. I got Solip: System by Walter Jon Williams (ignoring the coupon I used) for 2.99 - which showed to me as 2.78.
So that's around the current exchange rate.
But the 8.99 Bug Jack Barron is 9.28 - which is going the other way.
As is a cheapskate scan of a Talbot Mundy bio that a yankee acquaintance looked up for me at 14.70 or so and is 15.49 here. Making no sense.
Tor UK triple their prices for Australia sometimes! Although they might have come back a bit from that to only double given they probably sold countable in binary amounts of those 25-30+ books in the last few months. And generally Tor USA not available at all, although more older books appearing it seems as no-longer-laboring-under-delusions-of-specialness-enough-to-get-AU/NZ deals sell those rights to the yanks or have some weird clause or other. (Although sometimes this is just publisher incompetence/malice too I think)
Open Road I am pretty sure I've mentally dismissed as not much of interest and way too expensive, so never knew they had stuff as generically fantasy like Hambly?
I agree, Macmillan, Hachette etc. I've given them the arse, unless there's a special e.g. free Martin or Kadrey. Or 0.99 or whatever. Some total spent at those publishers this year on ebooks is probably five bucks. And a 3.58 preorder Mark Chadbourn special from Random House - who are nowhere near as egregious as the others. Much as I like Alastair Reynolds etc., anywhere that wants to doublecharge Australians just because they like subsidising their major markets from us can go and get you know what. Hachette even raised the SF Gateway book prices 50% in Australian in December. Only in Australia, as far as I am aware. No idea how that makes sense given there is zero paper market to 'protect' for those - unless they are just trying to do that in general. Which is also $%^%!*#& stupid, of course as the Kindle Select cheap book goldmine just means reading and cash goes there or small presses instead. $14 for E. C. Tubb or D. G. Compton or whoever ebooks is clearly delusional.
As far as Tor.com goes - I would have done that too, actually. They do still have free html ones which I am sure calibre or instapaper or something will snag for you in a few seconds if you fancy one converted as you are probably aware. Their stories appear to be nowhere near as good as they used to be, though.
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