Ian Reid wrote:
can anyone explain to the me the retail price in Australia? Cost to
buy directly from Lynx Edicions, the publisher, is 212 euro (approx
$270 plus shipping), so how is $430 justified and/or sustained?
Sure can Ian. Some publishers will not give retail booksellers a
reasonable wholesale discount but they still expect them to sell their
books. Simple as that!! Another extremely annoying problem is that some
publishers quote a standard retail price which the bookseller works on
but he later finds that the publisher has discounted the retail price to
entice people to buy direct from them. It is a dog-eat-dog world out there!
And that is not all the sort of rubbish you have to put up with in this
business. Buying from overseas publishers has an added problem - all
consignments have to be shipped by sea which is still not cheap. Since
Vol 1 of HBW, I have had two consignments lost. Luckily they were
insured. Another consignment went to Norway from Spain before it arrived
in Australia about 5 months after it was consigned. Another had lost all
of its outer packaging and six books arrived separately over a few
weeks. Another had lost all its tagging apart from a small torn tag
with only part of my name and address intact which someone had stapled
back onto the package - otherwise it would have been lost as well.
Having said that there are still a small number of fair and honest
publishers about.
Lloyd Nielsen
www.birdingaustralia.com.au
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