price of books

[biodroid]

I ordered (from TOR) Speaker for the dead and Xenocide online and paid half the price for the same books from Time Warner. Could someone tell me why that is the case. Are the books printed and bound poorly? Did they cut some of the story out?

 

[gully_foyle]

I ordered (from TOR) Speaker for the dead and Xenocide online and paid half the price for the same books from Time Warner. Could someone tell me why that is the case. Are the books printed and bound poorly? Did they cut some of the story out?

I hope not, unless they were Readers Digest abridged editions.

There is one thing I've noticed in this neck of the Indian Ocean. A blanket 10% tax was applied to books and everything else by our caring conservative government (think VAT people). And we all protested the rise in the price of books (through strongly worded letters in printed in local newspapers). However, I have noticed that we no longer have books supplied just from the UK (or the bastion of everything refined and intelligent), but American publishers (purveyors of gaudy covers and cheap paper) are supplying our market, at significantly reduced prices.

So perhaps economics is behind this.