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Originally Posted by jehane
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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
While books can be parallel imported into NZ, both commercially and privately, as far as I can see it has not had much effect on the pricing of books in physical shops but has made a big difference for online purchases through local and overseas web sellers. Physical shops complain that the cost of books to them from the publishers can be higher than the retail price being offered by parallel importers (parallel imports have to be, of course, legitimate copies) so it would seem that it may be the publishers who are being inflexible.
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Interesting. Are they still going through local publishers or are they able to source from foreign publishers? Though if the books are published under one publisher using different local imprints I can see where this might make no difference... |
They are parallel imports so will be imported, via an overseas third party if the publisher's overseas office will not supply. There may be cases where a publisher overseas will supply to the parallel importer as well as their own local office or representatives, should they have those (the big ones do have), but I doubt it.
So a parallel imported item may in some cases have both the publisher's selling margin on it in the country of origin, plus the third party supplier's, plus the parallel importer's; despite that it still works out cheaper.