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Originally Posted by moonshot
I have compared a few more new release prices. For example the new Stuart Mc Bride eBook due out this month is £10.99 on Kobo and £7.49 on both Amazon and Google Books.
I have tried a few Kobo Voucher codes but none seem to work apart from the ones already on the Kobo site and they are only for a small selection of their books.
I wonder how Kobo justify their prices?
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It's not just Kobo though, Amazon is just so competitive here in the UK for books, and on the occasions when Kobo, Google, Sony, Nook have a sale price on a book, Amazon usually match them, so its very rare that a book is ever cheaper elsewhere. The only exception I found was booksonboard.com, and they went out of business!
Someone posted a 30% off code for sainsburysebooks in the deals forum, might be worth trying for you? I checked out a couple of the books on my wishlist to see if it was worth buying them:
Chilled to the Bone by Quentin Bates (£5.79, 30% off = £4.05, yay it's cheaper than Amazon's £4.79).
Never Go Back by Lee Child (£8.99 30% off = £6.30, but it's £5.84 at Amazon).
Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz (£6.61, 30% off = £4.63, but it's £4.49 at Amazon).
So even with a working code, not always cheaper.
Edited to add: It's not the perfect solution, and not everyone is willing to remove DRM to allow them to convert their books, but it is worth considering the option of learning how to use Calibre and discovering Apprentice Alf's tools and that will allow you to buy from whichever bookstore you find the best prices in.
Also worth using luzme.com to check for the best prices of a book.