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Old 09-11-2011, 04:54 AM   #16
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I was just browsing the Kobo store when I notice the Millennium series by Stieg Larsson. A few months ago the price for "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" was $4.99 now its almost $12.00! Same with the rest of the series each one has gained at leas $5.
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If you live in Canada, you are better off with a reader that does ePub via ADE then a Kindle given that there are a lot of eBooks not available via Amazon.

Am I getting the gist of things correct?
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Clearly not! You need to read more carefully. The OP wasn't talking about the Kindle store, and in any case Agency pricing affects all ebook stores equally.
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Old 09-11-2011, 04:57 AM   #17
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I was just browsing the Kobo store when I notice the Millennium series by Stieg Larsson. A few months ago the price for "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" was $4.99 now its almost $12.00! Same with the rest of the series each one has gained at leas $5.
Ouch! In the UK the series is published by Quercus. £3.59, £3.59 and £2.44 at Amazon. But Quercus isn't an Agency publisher.
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Old 09-11-2011, 05:11 AM   #18
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I was just browsing the Kobo store when I notice the Millennium series by Stieg Larsson. A few months ago the price for "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" was $4.99 now its almost $12.00! Same with the rest of the series each one has gained at leas $5.
More valuable now that there are fewer copies......wait.....what??
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Old 09-11-2011, 09:24 AM   #19
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Clearly not! You need to read more carefully. The OP wasn't talking about the Kindle store, and in any case Agency pricing affects all ebook stores equally.
What I don't understand is why Penguin won't sell eBooks via Amazon in Canada. This just seems silly to me.

It's not quite equal when one publisher won't sell to a specific store.
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There are many books that I am waiting to borrow from the public library because I refuse to pay $12 for an ebook. I also will not buy the paperback because it just rewards the publishers for their price fixing strategies. since my public library isn't purchasing many new ebooks I have to wait for the physical copies- but I will wait.
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Old 09-11-2011, 05:56 PM   #21
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I'm wondering who is to blame for the pricing... Can't put my finger on it...
Blame Canada...
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Old 09-11-2011, 06:02 PM   #22
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I am that administrator. Honestly most of the work is outsourced to Uranus.
That makes sense; so much of the work does look like it came from his...oh, never mind.

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Old 09-11-2011, 06:07 PM   #24
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Old 09-12-2011, 09:54 AM   #25
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I think the earlier pricing of the Larsson books was a promotional price. I'd read about the "sale" a while ago and bought the books at the discounted price. So I don't blame Penguin now that the prices have gone up.

Agency pricing is another matter altogether, and I think the agency model stinks.

Publishers are evil.
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Agency pricing is another matter altogether, and I think the agency model stinks.

Publishers are evil.
Gadaffi is evil, Pol Pot was evil etc... whatever else they are, evil is really overkill in this case... don't devalue the currency of words by overuse in the wrong context...
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Gadaffi is evil, Pol Pot was evil etc... whatever else they are, evil is really overkill in this case... don't devalue the currency of words by overuse in the wrong context...
Publishers are evil
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Old 09-12-2011, 01:47 PM   #28
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Gadaffi is evil, Pol Pot was evil etc... whatever else they are, evil is really overkill in this case... don't devalue the currency of words by overuse in the wrong context...
Have you ever got onto anyone for devaluing the currency of words by use of the term piracy in the wrong context?
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Gadaffi is evil, Pol Pot was evil etc... whatever else they are, evil is really overkill in this case... don't devalue the currency of words by overuse in the wrong context...
It's called hyperbole.
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It's called hyperbole.
It's called overdone...
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