Price Problems Remain Right after Lunch Deluxe went out yesterday we noticed an interesting price comparison between Knopf’s US hardcover edition of Bill Clinton’s forthcoming GIVING at $24.95, and Random UK’s hardcover at basically twice the price, at 25 pounds. Right there in a nutshell you have on display many of the problems of the UK market — with hardcover prices vastly inflated to paper over the huge discounts given to the supermarkets while still preserving profit margins, but leaving regular bookstores (and regular bookstore customers) hammered, and creating a natural opportunity for importing US editions from mainland Europe that […]
