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Originally Posted by troykm
Dan Brown The lost symbol is $24.13 for the ebook
i paid $19.99 for the real, hard cover book.
kathy reichs 206 bones $23.62
kindle store $15.78 ($17.20aud)
looks like Australians get ripped off again. please tell me why we must pay such high prices for digital content. i mean its not like a new copy has to be printed for every purchase. once a book is on the server, its there!
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Economies of scale - we are a very small market compared to Europe or USA. Maybe also local inefficient publishers/distributors, like most Aus products. You can have smaller margins if you have a millions kindles compared to hundreds or maybe thousands of Ecoreaders.
You also won't see ebooks being dumped/on-sale to reduce excess stock. Dan brown is $32 reduced from a supposed $49 on Dymocks Online. Makes the ebook price look good to me.
To be honest, I'm just happy we are able to buy ebooks locally at a small discount over paper. I'm more concerned about the limited range than attempting to compete with Amazon prices.
It is disappointing that the range is still smaller than the restricted-to-OZ kindle range - hopefully that will improve.
cheers
- Kevin