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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
If I would do that, I'd never been able to buy a Dutch book. We've a fixed bookprice. I don't know any better than that the publisher sets the price.
For me, it's not so much the price but rather the fact that I simply am not allowed to buy at all. If I want to read a book, I'm willing to pay the price asked. If I can buy it somewhere.
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Sorry. I didn't mean to imply that you or anyone else should emulate what I am doing. Every time I am reminded of the fixed price book system I am quite simply amazed by it. Perhaps there are cultural aspects that, not being a European, I do not understand. To me, it seems to penalise consumers on the flimsiest of pretixts.
For me also it is not about price, though price does play a role. One might look on agency pricing as an attempt to bring a fixed book price to the whole world. The only saving grace seems to be that indie publishing is increasingly providing competition to traditional publishers, and perhaps moderating some of their worst behaviour. Publishers should have no place in setting retail prices.
And I can't think of any good reason for denying you the right to purchase a book you want just because you happen to live in a particular region.