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Blue Tyson · 05-08-2010, 12:50 AM

Given there has been a little interest this week :-

A book I am interested in, but don't need to get as such, having the stories already:

is El Borak and Other Desert Adventures by Robert E. Howard

Using Inkmesh and checking some myself, here's a range of prices

11.99 Amazon.com
+11.79 Kobo
u12.60 Sony eBook Store
u13.37 Barnes & Noble
14.98 BooksOnBoard
16.80 Cooler Ebooks
16.90 Waterstone's UK
*17.50 Readwithoutpaper.com
18.00 Fictionwise
18.48 eReadable
18.64 Powells.com
*18.86 Dymocks.com.au

Note that a year or so ago the Amazon.com price at 9.99 is more than I obtained earlier books in the series for at Fictionwise. So their price is close to double.

* = Australian. Price converted at 0.90 as a rough guide at the moment.
u = Absolutely useless to us, but there for comparison.
+ = Of interest via Border's Australia, perhaps. Not selling currently.

So it would seem that unless something changes, Amazon has good chance to rule here in Australia, too, if they feel like it.

The only other hope for readers to get a decent deal would appear to be Kobo. Borders.com.au is supposed to be doing something on May 19 - presumably selling readers and ebooks.

I thought I'd put this up, as this is a book they would be likely to have I'd imagine.

So if Borders does ebooks, and the prices are down the bottom of the list, Amazon is likely to stay king. As is the darknet, for Australians, given that would indicate no one has any real interest at all in offering Australians some decent deals.

If Kobo and company can be somewhere around the US price (and GST for here of course) then maybe there will be some competition.

As a side note, though, Zima Blue and Other Stories by Alastair Reynolds was $11.99 around xmas time. $Now 16.40, and that is at Amazon.

05-08-2010, 12:50 AM	#1
Blue Tyson Blue Captain Posts: 1,595 Karma: 5000236 Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Australia Device: Kindle Keyboard 3G,Huawei Ideos X3,Kobo Mini	Australian ebook prices and opportunities Given there has been a little interest this week :- A book I am interested in, but don't need to get as such, having the stories already: is El Borak and Other Desert Adventures by Robert E. Howard Using Inkmesh and checking some myself, here's a range of prices 11.99 Amazon.com +11.79 Kobo u12.60 Sony eBook Store u13.37 Barnes & Noble 14.98 BooksOnBoard 16.80 Cooler Ebooks 16.90 Waterstone's UK 17.50 Readwithoutpaper.com 18.00 Fictionwise 18.48 eReadable 18.64 Powells.com 18.86 Dymocks.com.au Note that a year or so ago the Amazon.com price at 9.99 is more than I obtained earlier books in the series for at Fictionwise. So their price is close to double. * = Australian. Price converted at 0.90 as a rough guide at the moment. u = Absolutely useless to us, but there for comparison. + = Of interest via Border's Australia, perhaps. Not selling currently. So it would seem that unless something changes, Amazon has good chance to rule here in Australia, too, if they feel like it. The only other hope for readers to get a decent deal would appear to be Kobo. Borders.com.au is supposed to be doing something on May 19 - presumably selling readers and ebooks. I thought I'd put this up, as this is a book they would be likely to have I'd imagine. So if Borders does ebooks, and the prices are down the bottom of the list, Amazon is likely to stay king. As is the darknet, for Australians, given that would indicate no one has any real interest at all in offering Australians some decent deals. If Kobo and company can be somewhere around the US price (and GST for here of course) then maybe there will be some competition. As a side note, though, Zima Blue and Other Stories by Alastair Reynolds was $11.99 around xmas time. $Now 16.40, and that is at Amazon. Last edited by Blue Tyson; 05-08-2010 at 03:22 AM.