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Message: <blockquote data-quote="13garth13" data-source="post: 3053485" data-attributes="member: 16979">As an ex-Winnepeger.......heck, someone has to represent the bloody middle of the country, eh?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />    I remember hearing on the CBC when one of the head honchos of Chapters-Indigo (it may in fact have been the owner) was being interviewed, she dismayed that publishers are basically gouging the Canadian customer and that the cost of books has always been tied to the exchange rate, and when it goes down versus the USD they sure as shooting raise the Canajun price, but they are glacially slow to adjust when our Loonie goes up against the American dollar.  I myself (while glancing over my various paperbacks and hardcovers, both fiction, non-fiction, gaming and comic-based) can see that generally the CAN price seems to be according to the exchange rate of the time....until the last couple of years when the loonie surged up (or to be more economically precise, the US $$ took a swift plunge into the financial loo and everything else started looking better in comparison...)   Again, someone from the actual book trade would have to comment.  Additionally though, I seem to recall that Paizo mentioned that their mags had been unfair towards Canucks since our dollar started to climb and only recently when they upped the US price on Dragon and supposedly left the CAN price unchanged have they taken steps to rectifiy the situation (in a manner of speaking  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  )   Hopefully James Jacobs or Mike McCartor will step in on the whole exchange rate versus grotesque shipping fees creating the cover price discrepancy.   Cheers, (and back to lurking)   Colin</blockquote>

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