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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.
Speaking in generalities has its uses but sometimes you have to be more specific to appreciate an issue.
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It is starting to remind me of the prescription drug price situation where everyone has reasonable prices except in the US. Back when Amazon had the NYT best sellers at $9.99 that seemed a fair price to me, older titles were considerably less and I bought lots of ebooks back then. Different story today where NYT best sellers are up to a third more in price at $15.99 which is the point at which I balk at the price of a book I will read just one time.
http://www.amazon.com/National-Bests...rd_i=154606011
Amazon has helped to mitigate this nonsense pricing by publishing Independent authors whose books are often $5.99 or less.
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-K...rd_i=154606011
I get most of my ebooks through Overdrive and supplement those with audio books from Overdrive. So the big publishers are not getting anything from me, except whatever they make through Overdrive from my participating libraries. That gives me plenty of books with very little cost these days.
I know $15.99 is an acceptable price for some, but for me that is a month's subscription to HBO, or Spotify, or more than a subscription to Netflix or Hulu. It is about entertainment value and all the options available.