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Originally Posted by JohnRR
€25-€35 for a trade paperback? Is this the normal price in the Netherlands?  |
It seems so, at least in the store where I was. A trade paperback cost around €24.95, with the biggest ones going up to €29.95. Think about the big names such as George R.R. Martin, Stephen King, Robert Jordan, and books of 1000+ pages.
The even more expensive ones were the hardcovers.
I've already paid €29.95 for my hardcover of Musashi, about 12 years ago (in a local book store that ordered it for me, just before I started ordering stuff online), while my hardcovers of Shogun and IT (translated to Dutch) cost around fl 59.95 (€27.50) around 15 years ago (just before I had internet).
A dance with dragons, hardcover, English, €22.95.
Een dans met draken, hardcover, Dutch, €19.95.
First: this is online. Stores are much more expensive.
Second: The dutch version is only
Part I. If you want the entire book, you'll need to also get
Part II, which is another €19.95. That brings the total to €39.90 for the hardcovers (in Dutch). At local stores the combination will probably cost €45.
When buying this book online, you have to be very careful, because it's not always clearly stated that the book you are buying is Part I or Part II only, and not the full book. This is true for either paper or e-book versions. Many shops just use the same cover image and same description for each book, and the only differentiator is the price: the most expensive one is the entire book. (At least bol.com does it correctly.)
Oh, for people who are complaining that their e-readers are too heavy: the full hardcover version of A Dance With Dragons weighs in at 1.39 kg, about 5 times as heavy as a Kindle + Cover
