As you may know, Bob, Amazon bases foreign ebook prices on what the ebook costs in the country where it’s originally published. Since I’m an American, my ebooks are initially priced in US dollars, and then Amazon extrapolates that price into other currencies for international ‘Zon markets.

Except that this can really hurt people in markets where the local currency is lower than the US dollar. I was recently made aware that Australian and Canadian readers are getting absolutely *reamed* on book costs because of this, which is not right.

As I am not a greedy a-hole and want to keep my books at a reasonable price so that more people can read them, I have gone in and reduced the prices of my ebooks on amazon.au and amazon.ca to numerically match my American prices—i.e. most of my full-length novels will now be CAN$4.99 and AUS$4.99, with novellas being cheaper. My one historical romance Behind the Iron Cross is the outlier at $5.99 in both countries, but it’s a huge book so it costs a buck more. I’ll be analyzing costs in other countries and applying additional corrections as needed, and once I learn the pricing controls on Draft2Digital I’ll be doing the same over there.

What can I say? I’m all about keeping readers happy.