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Originally Posted by HarryT
Physical booksellers in the UK actually do generally charge the cover price for most books. Sure, they might have special offers on the latest bestseller, or have a "three for the price of two" offer for paperbacks, or something of the sort, but if you go in and buy a book, you will, generally speaking, pay the price that's printed on the cover.
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Really? Maybe things have changed over the past several years (since I've gone all ebook, I haven't been to B&N in a couple of years. I did actually by a couple of dead tree books this year, both older books that didn't have ebook versions, both via Amazon), but it use to be a pretty rare book where one payed the cover price at the B&N where I use to shop, perhaps some of the more obscure history titles. I seem to remember way back when, before B&N and Amazon it was pretty common to pay list price in the indie book stores.