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| Aknita |
Food for ThoughtNo, this isn't the title of a book ( though maybe it should be! :lol ) but I have just read the following article in this morning's Telegraph. Now I am not going to presume to tell anyone where they should but their books or what they should pay for them.But please, read this. Harry Potter makes Profits vanish |
| Catknit |
Yet another way the big companies are squeezing the independants out of business 
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| Seahorse |
I don't think the problem is so much Amazon, Waterstones etc v. Fred Blogs Independant Book Shop, it's the publishers. I'm assuming from that article that the wholesale price of the new HP is somewhere between £7 - £10. How much does it cost to print and distribute though? Even accounting for JKR's no doubt astronomical fee, I bet it's maybe half that? A quarter perhaps? Maybe less!
If the publishers (of all books) were less greedy, perhaps all retailers and all customers would get a much better deal. Claire |
| Jobo |
I must admit i do feel a bit guilty sometimes when I buy cheap paperbacks in Asda or Tesco. Same feeling when I buy clothes in Primark. 
I usually wait for books I want to come out in paperback because they are so much cheaper, but really £6.99 for a paperback in a normal bookshop is very good value for money considering the hours of enjoyment you get from it. We have an indpendent newsagents right next door to Sainsburys - I always buy my mags in the little shop even though Sainsbury sell them and it would be easier to sling them in the trolley 
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