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Originally Posted by sabredog
I will still source my books overseas as and when I can. I do still believe that even with agency five pricing, the cost still will be cheaper.
Australian consumers really do have a bad history of being short changed or ripped off. Pricing for ebooks probably will be not the exception to that standard.
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Yep. At the moment with the book depository and the strength of the dollar, it can even be cheaper to get new books than used - give US postage is so high now, and no surface mail there.
Which is amusing. Publishers lobby to keep parallel import restrictions so that books cost double - so people import them individually because it will always be cheaper. Unless the dollar slumps badly again. In that case though, they'll put books up again. Note that a strong dollar for a long time has not seen any price reductions I have noticed, anyway.