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Originally Posted by Josieb1
I just don't understand why Kobo are so much dearer when these books have a set publisher price.
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Originally Posted by Josieb1
The High Kings Golden Tongue by Megan Derr. It's £5.65 on Kobo and £4.53 on Amazon
A Samhain pre order for the 24th is Unnatural by Joanna Chambers, that is £3.83 on Kobo and £2.84 on Amazon (it would fall within this competition)
The other two I checked today are Josh Lanyons Jefferson Blythe, Esquire and Sue Browns The Rogue Wolf.
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Not sure about the Josh Lanyon (Carina/Harlequin is Agency in the US, not sure about the UK), but the other three aren't from Agency publishers (which is why codes work on them). This means the publisher suggests a list price, but doesn't set the actual price it
has to be sold for. A retailer can choose to sell at the list price (and many titles are sold that way) or to discount the title all they want (although IIRC there are some places where by law they must make a profit on the sale).
I generally find for books I'm interested in that I need at minimum a 45% code or often 50% to make it worth me getting it from Kobo (for non-Agency titles of course). The exception being for most self pubbed titles where Amazon tends to usually stick with the author's set price as does Kobo. For those even the smaller codes make Kobo cheaper.