Does the price stay the same accross the world market?

[Frank Zubek]

I'm new here and just posted my first novella
I was wondering something about prices.

Here in the states, the average paperback book has two prices
(examples)
9.99 for USA
11.95 for canada

Now.... I have a story on Kindle for 1.99
Do other world markets (say, Canada, UK, Australia etc) have a different pricing scale for the same story in their country?
If so, does that affect my per unit sale up or down?

Just curious if anyone knows this

[Ann in Arlington]

Welcome kebuzf. . . .In general, the price for a given book for someone outside the US is going to be something on the order of $2 higher than the price in the US.  This is because Amazon has added overhead costs for selling the books to international buyers -- including contracts for cell phone coverage and country specific duties and licenses to be allowed to sell there.  Rather than have add on fees for non-US customers, they've elected to aggregate the additional costs and simply price the books slightly higher.

[jglerner]

Welcome kebuzf. . . .In general, the price for a given book for someone outside the US is going to be something on the order of $2 higher than the price in the US.  This is because Amazon has added overhead costs for selling the books to international buyers -- including contracts for cell phone coverage and country specific duties and licenses to be allowed to sell there.  Rather than have add on fees for non-US customers, they've elected to aggregate the additional costs and simply price the books slightly higher.

Wrong aproach in my humble approach.

I live abroad and (in Brazil) there´s no VAT neither customs upon books. Anyway our free (lunch) books costs US$ 2.00. And they add US$ 2.00 for every book they sell (*delivered free via Whispernet*). For the chip why not use a local GSM company(ies)?

If I knew that in advance I´d consider it a negative note but, at least I´ll be aware about *fincludes international wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet*.

It never shows clearly that they add these fees even you download your book via Kindle for PC.

I´m not happy at all. US$ 2.00 is huge, With a local telephone company you can speak as much as 7 or 8 minutes Brazil-USA. Amazon claims they deliver you your book in 60 seconds...

Jacques 

[loca]

Prices are pretty inconsistent across all markets.  This is one of the major gripes, unfortunately.

[Numinous]

Amazon add $2 to the price when selling outside the US.

In some cases the base price is different, when the rights are held by a different company and they decide to charge a different price. I suspect before agency pricing Amazon just absorbed those differences. By and large though, most books are exactly $2 more expensive.

So in the case of your own book the non-US price should be exactly $2 higher. I have no idea whether you get a cut of that extra $2 though.

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Ann: what really annoys me is that they no longer charge US customers overseas for those exact same overheads. It used to be that a US customer overseas payed the US price, but had to pay to download the book. They changed that about a month ago, and it feels like Amazon saying that it values US customers more than non-US customers.