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Originally Posted by Laura81
Robert, can you give us an idea what the prices will be like? Like will they be more than Amazon? Same? Less?
Oh and will international readers be able to buy any book they like? Or will it be limited?
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Dear Laura:
The General Manager of the new eBook Store being talked about has told everyone he wants the price at most 10% above our cost. That should translate to really great prices I think... but we will only know later when it opens. I can only say that we aim to be a bargain and not to maximize profit.
The PAY titles (some 200,000 to start) will be international. You can buy from anywhere on earth and we specifically demanded Australians to be able to buy. No problem there.
Google ONLY grants the license to us to sell the free Google eBooks in their library to the USA. We have a request in to make this international or at the least Canada, USA,and Australia but that is under study. This is NOT our wishes but Google sets the rules for their eBooks. We are pushing like mad to get this changed!
It looks like the pricing reductions are going to delay things about another week. Projected launch date is now March 15.