[GeoffR]

What I find interesting with ebook prices in New Zealand is that it is not all publishers that price higher here, only some.

Going by the ebooks I buy the worst offenders seem to be Hachette and Macmillan, their ebooks are often two or three times the UK or US price. But HarperCollins' prices are usually similar or even cheaper in New Zealand than in the US or UK, once exchange rates and discounting are taken into account.

It is hard to see how there are any real differences in costs to justify either a higher or a lower price for ebooks in New Zealand compared to the US or UK, it just seems to be different pricing strategies by different publishers.

It obviously has nothing to do with the cost of buying the New Zealand rights to the ebook, because sometimes there is more than one publisher selling the same ebook, so neither can have exclusive New Zealand rights, and yet one publisher still charges two or three times the price of the other.