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Originally Posted by GERGE
You are right in that. I was just replying GeoffR that global prices also don't make much sense.
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You are right, so instead of a single final global price, set a single global base price and use the same method of deriving the local price from that. e.g. add local taxes, a mergin to allow for currency volatility, and and adjustment for GDP per capita or average wage or whatever other measure you choose.
If the same method is used forall countries, and readers know what it is, then they might see the price differences between countries as fair.
But New Zealand has lower GDP per capita, lower average wages, is poorer than the USA or UK by any economic measure you choose, so any fair method should result in lower ebook prices in New Zealand than in the USA or UK.
(And to be fair, many of the publishers do currently set their ebook prices lower in New Zealand, especially once you take retailer discounts on ebooks that are agency priced in the USA but discountable in New Zealand into account.)