News :: Aussie readers getting a great deal on Dan Brown
Aussie readers getting a great deal on Dan Brown
Australian bookbuyers are getting a great deal with the new Dan Brown book, The Lost Symbol, released today.
The recommended retail price for a hardcover version of the book in Australia is $49.95 – which includes GST of 10%.
Taking freight costs and GST into account, this is considerably lower than the recommended retail price in the UK and just under the recommended retail price in the USA.
Australian discount retailers are pricing the book highly competitively, $24.48 at Big W and $24.95 at K Mart.
And at least one Australian online retailer – Booktopia – had been offering pre-ordered copies before release, including freight, for less (taking GST into account) than UK online retailer Book Depository, whose prices include freight.
Australian Publishers Association CEO Maree McCaskill said the highly competitive Australian pricing for the
book underlined the success of the use-it-or-lose-it territorial copyright rules introduced in 1991.
“Australian readers get the best of both worlds,” she said.
“The book goes on sale here at the same time as other major global centres.
“At the same time, it’s priced highly competitively.
“And if the book sells anything like as well as the previous book by this author, its Australian publisher will have additional resources to develop new Australian authors for Australian readers.
“The Productivity Commission’s recommended abolition of Australian territorial copyright would put all this at risk,” Ms McCaskill said.
Australian bookbuyers are getting a great deal with the new Dan Brown book, The Lost Symbol, released today.
The recommended retail price for a hardcover version of the book in Australia is $49.95 – which includes GST of 10%.
Taking freight costs and GST into account, this is considerably lower than the recommended retail price in the UK and just under the recommended retail price in the USA.
Australian discount retailers are pricing the book highly competitively, $24.48 at Big W and $24.95 at K Mart.
And at least one Australian online retailer – Booktopia – had been offering pre-ordered copies before release, including freight, for less (taking GST into account) than UK online retailer Book Depository, whose prices include freight.
Australian Publishers Association CEO Maree McCaskill said the highly competitive Australian pricing for the
book underlined the success of the use-it-or-lose-it territorial copyright rules introduced in 1991.
“Australian readers get the best of both worlds,” she said.
“The book goes on sale here at the same time as other major global centres.
“At the same time, it’s priced highly competitively.
“And if the book sells anything like as well as the previous book by this author, its Australian publisher will have additional resources to develop new Australian authors for Australian readers.
“The Productivity Commission’s recommended abolition of Australian territorial copyright would put all this at risk,” Ms McCaskill said.