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Originally Posted by kevine
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
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Actually I don't think it is a case of Economies of Scale (yes I have done economics). We are in a current situation where as a consumer we are not really restricted to local markets, we are living in a global market. Gone are the days of only being able to buy a book/cd/computer/whatever from the local guy, we can now buy nationally or internationally with the click of a button.
Where the high price comes from IMHO is local book publishers are just starting to get their feet wet, coupled with customs duties + gst etc.