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Originally Posted by HarryT
Paperbacks have got an awful lot more expensive in the UK in the last few years (the normal paperback price is now £7.99
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I've just pulled a selection of random reasonably thick paperback fiction from the shelves, covering a wide time period.
PD James - A Taste for Death - 1986 - £4.99
WIll Baker - Shadow Hunter - 1993 - £5.99
Michael Moorcock - Sailing to Utopia - 1993 - £6.99
Paul Doherty - The Horus Killings - 2000 - £5.99
Neal Asher - Gridlinked - 2002 - £6.99
KJ Parker - Colours in the Sand - 2003 - £6.99
Neal Asher - The Line of Polity - 2004 - £7.99
So my pre-1997 books are between 5 and 7 pounds, my post 1997 books are between 6 and 8 pounds.
I'm not seeing a huge jump in prices over that period.
And as for discounts, how many small independent bookstores charged less than cover price?