Hello Stephen,
Big dutch fan here. Have been since you started. Read most your books and admired your ventures into modern media. Now I was exhilarated to read about your new book and since we just bought a nice iPad 2 I thought : let's have it ! So I logged on to the first ( probably british page) but since I am currently living in Berlin was redirected to the German store. And lo and behold : The price of your book with a single dart through cyberspace was almost QUADRUPLED. Your old friend Douglas would have been amused and maybe have would called it a "subspace interlinear price gauging mechanism" but alas I was not.
On the British Page your book costs 4£49 (that is 5 €13 cents). In the German Store it costs 18,99 €.
I don't mind paying 19 € for your book, so I am going to buy it anyway, but in the back of my dutch mind (we are after all the scotsmen of europe where money is concerned) I do sincerely doubt that you will be at the receiving end of that mega-price increase. Or are you? If so : Good enough.
In case you were NOT aware of this I advise you or your financial manager to look into getting a bigger bite of that rather stupendous "upgrade". Or wait.. maybe the cost of taxes, transportation and storage... shelf-space and what have you hmmm.
Regards from Berlin
Macdutch
My German wife just enlightened me about the seemingly antiquated but very much still enforced law on "BUCHPREISBINDUNG" (If that did not clarify things : It turns out an ebook in Germany must be sold at the same price that the paper version is. Wow. And I thought we had finally hopped into the 21th.
