Re: RARA-AVIS: re: Robert Wilson

From: Eddie Duggan ( Eddie.Duggan@suffolk.ac.uk)
Date: 09 May 2002


"Peedie Monk" < peediemonk@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:

> Carrie wrote:
> > I note that the hardbacks seem to be going
> > for exorbitant prices online, though
> > fortunately the paperbacks are available
> > for fairly cheap from UK sources.

> In the UK, chain bookstores don't charge for customer orders.
> They also don't charge postage/shipping for overseas orders
> (primarily because US wholesalers ship bulk orders for free).

But maybe also because they tend to 'translate' the dollar price into pounds by switching the dollar sign to a pound sign: $15 = £15 = hefty markup.

ED

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