Australia (and Australians) are used to being treated badly by publishers, hence why the POD service was a bust.
Dunno if I'll be able to use their service with my current liseuse (they're dreaming if they think I'm buying another).
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Originally Posted by IndecisiveMe
Borders has been selling ebook readers online for some time now, I doubt they've sold many given their current prices - $625.95 for a Bebook Mini (seriously!), $647.95 for a Sony PRS-300 and $898.95 for the Sony PRS-600.
These prices are well above anywhere you can get these devices in Australia. Our prices are already over-inflated and Borders makes it even worse.
I can't wait to see what they come up with. If their books are reasonably priced I'll be happy to buy from them. However, they missed the chance to sell me a reader as my Pocketbook 360 arrived this afternoon for half the price (including shipping) of anything else offered by them currently.
I'm with everyone else - Australian retailers regularly price themselves out of the market and we find cheaper ways to get what we want.
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Those prices you quoted are just plain highway robbery.
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Originally Posted by Blue Tyson
Ultimately the consumer will decide being code for :
This is Australia, so we'll charge a lot more, unless no-one buys at all.
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Usually one leads to the other. But hey, this is Australia: we left all the shopkeepers back in England
