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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
I'd guess a lot depends on specific books and or publishers.
For the heck of it I checked a book (a Fantasy novel) on both Amazon sites...
Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erickson
US paperback - $6.58
US eBook - $8.99
UK paperback - £6.29
UK eBook - £5.98
So in that case the UK eBook is cheaper than paper, but not by much.
Unless one is going by the "list price" of the print book, then the eBook in the UK is 33% cheaper.  |
A book I actually bought: "Murder on the Orient Express".
Paperback list price: £7.99
Amazon paperback price: £5.99
Kindle price: £3.99
Thus, the Kindle price is 66% of Amazon's paperback price, and 50% of the list price. This is typical of the books I buy. Of course there's the odd one that's proportionally more expensive, but there are also many that are dramatically cheaper, too. Eg a couple of weeks ago I bought the first 7 books in Winston Graham's "Poldark" series for 99p each in a "Kindle Daily Deal" sale; the paperbacks cost, on average, £5.59 each.
I really do think that ebooks are, on the whole, very reasonably priced.