Your research with the publishers really confirms what i suspected; there is a wholesale price and individual resellers choose their own price to retail items at. It would have been unusual if this commodity was different to most others! I did quote some examples in my reply to Waterstones and also suggested that other retailers may be negotiaiting more advantageous terms in their discussions with manufacturers and publishers.
I am still awaiting a reply to that mail but, like you, i am pleased that our collective efforts seem to have resulted in actual questions being responded to now. Albeit they may not contain the answers we would prefer!
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