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Originally Posted by fjtorres
It has been reported that UK BPH titles are competitively priced, unlike their US counterparts. Your prices back that up: your quoted prices of US$6-9 would find little resistance on this side of the pond where their prices typically run $11-13 and higher. A 50% premium on BPH authors can be tolerated but a 200-300% higher price is a lot harder to swallow.
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I should stress that my £4-5 price bracket is typical for "back catalogue" books (which are what I mostly buy). New releases are of course more expensive. I wait to buy my ebooks until the price falls, which generally happens with the release of the MMPB edition.
My most recent ebook purchases have been:
"The Wings of the Sphinx", by Andrea Camilleri (Picador): £4.29
"The Three-Body Problem", by Cixin Liu (Head of Zeus): £0.99 (Kindle Daily Deal)
"All You Zombies (and other stories)" by Robert Heinlein (Amazon): £3.60
"Jamaica Inn", by Daphne Du Maurier (Virago): £0.99 (Kindle Daily Deal)
"Watership Down", by Richard Adams (Oneworld): £0.99 (Kindle Daily Deal)
"War of the Gods", by Poul Anderson (SF Gateway): £4.99
"The Twisted Sword", by Winston Graham (Pan): £3.59
"Fools Die on Friday", by Erle Stanley Gardner (The Murder Room): £4.99
So, as you see, nothing over £5, and some great Kindle Daily Deals, too.
(This list is ignoring all the freebies)