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Originally Posted by guyanonymous
Up here in Canada, we've put up, for years, with CDN/US prices on our books - which haven't remotely reflected exchange rates etc. Those prices aren't following a free-market, they're setting an artificial price point that provides consumers with virtually no choice.
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Consumers
always have a choice: if the price is not to your liking, why buy it? If the books are priced too high in Canada, why are people still buying them? Evidently they're
not priced too high. It sounds to me like it's not that you're "putting up" with high prices, you're
accepting them by buying the books. It's not like the publishing companies are putting a gun to your head and forcing you to buy the book; it's not even like books are a necessary staple (like food or water). If the majority of folks voted with their wallets, the prices would change in about a week.