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Originally Posted by darryl
I just checked Amazon India where "The Girl on the Train" is selling for 299.50 rupees. which converts to about $US4.70. Amazon currently want $6.99 in te US. The price in India is lower, but not so much lower as to cater for the impoverished. Undeveloped countries quite often have a middle class which, although small in percentage terms, is larger than the whole population of some more developed countries. Prices appear to be set to sell to this relatively affluent middle class, not to the much larger mass of impoverished who anecdotally read pirate versions on their cellphones. Single world pricing will probably make little difference to this situation.
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Simple currency conversion does't work to measure affordability.
http://www.statista.com/statistics/2...for-a-big-mac/
Going by the Big Mac index ($1.89 in India buys $4.79 of hamburger in US terms) the real cost of the ebook in earning power is over US$12 or about double the US.
That is not cheaper pricing.
Anything that drives pricing higher isn't going to move sales down market.