Thread: And another UK Newspaper Article: The Times
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Old 09-04-2008, 04:58 AM   #29
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Originally Posted by garygibsonsf View Post
The second article mentioned in this thread suggests UK publishers are apparently intending to charge normal, full UK paperback price for ebooks; ie, £7.99 for an ebook which might otherwise be only four or five quid after discount on Amazon or Play.com. This concerns me, since unless there are some pricing schemes coming up, the UK publishers could lose a lot of business to US online booksellers who charge at times considerably less.
That's precisely the reason that I chose to go with a device which supports the wide-spread MobiPocket book format rather than be tied to one specific bookstore. The fact that there are many MobiPocket retailers means that there's real competition, and prices are low. I find that Mobi eBooks books are typically half the price of UK paperbacks.
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