Ibooks much more expensive than kindle books

Is there somewhere within Apple ibookstore that you can raise the issue of a book being much more expensive in ibookstore compared to Aussie Kindle store?

The prices for each ibook are set by the publisher/rights-holder - some might be cheaper on Amazon/Kindle, some in the iBookstore or in one of the other ebook apps/stores (Nook, Kobo).
You can leave feedback for Apple via one of these pages, but only the publisher can change the price :
iBooks iOS app feedback : http://www.apple.com/feedback/ibooks_ios.html
iTunes stores feedback : http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

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Why are itunes books so much more expensive than kindle books?

I am a recent convert from Android to iPad and iPhone. Even though I have the Kindle app on both devices and can read my Kindle books, it seemed to make sense to make any new book purchases through iTunes since I already purchase apps and music. However, after comparing about a half dozen books on both Kindle and iTunes, the iTunes books were all higher in price by 30 to 50%. This doesn't make sense to me, so I thought I'd throw it out as a question and see if anyone knew why.

I'm struggling with the same thing. I prefer to buy all things Apple. If the prices were even close, I would, but I just found yet another book that I need for work where Kindle is literally half the price!!!! One thing I won't do is end up with half of my ebooks in Kindle and half in iBooks, so if Apple doesn't fix this, I'm afraid I will have to buy all my books from amazon. And once you start down either path, it's hard to switch back, so I hope Apple is paying attention.

Why is apple Australia so much MORE expensive than America!?

so tell me, Why is apple Australia so much MORE expensive than America!? i have been meaning to pick up a new imac.....and i saw that the exact same type of imac that i want i could pick up in America for a good $600 LESS.... you know, even though our dollar is HIGHER THAN AMERICA'S! *** APPLE!

Reasons:
Australian import duties
Australian taxes on foreign imports
Australian VAT
Got complaints? Talk to your politicians. Apple has nothing to do with it.

Is it the time to go to Google? iTunes is much more expensive than Google Play!

I know that iTunes is amazing. But now that Google Play's started renting movies in my country (Brazil) I guess if iTunes worth it's high price for everything...
I have an Apple Tv, what is very good, however isn't complete as well, per exemple that doesn't have a way to change the subtitle size, what's a really simple feature. Otherwise its items are extremelly expense here in my Country. While a movie is rented by Google for R$ 6.99 (~U$3.49) the same movie is rented by iTunes for U$4.99, so I guess: WHY???
Do you guys have the same felling than I have that Apple has charged so much more money that it would? Anyone here is thinking about migrate to Google Play/Android plataform?
Why do you guys think about all of that?

If you find a better price elsewhere, by all means patronize that other company if you wish. We have no control over pricing here, we just being fellow users, and these forums are for technical support questions, not pricing debates or comments, so further discussion on the matter really isn't appropriate here.
Regards.

Why is Adobe photoshop Australian pricing so much more expensive than US pricing???

The Adobe pricing policy for Australia is to promote significant overpricing ( sometimes more than 100%!) for both purchased and downloaded products.
I note that purchases of Adobe products through Amazon are also not allowed for Australian customers, when there is no problem for other company products.
What is going on? Adobe should give an honest answer to explain this anti-competitive conduct.

LittleGamer wrote:
That was kinda what I suspected. Bad Apple! :D
what's bad about being smart business people? Companies exist to make profits and they will charge what the market will bear. If the market reacts by not buying because the price is too high, the price will be reduced? Simple market forces at work - highschool economics. Apparently, Apple feels their sales in Sweden at the current price point are going well - if you want to change the price, stop buying the product at that price.

Why is apple ram so much more expensive than normal ram

for 2 gb of apple ram for the dual 2.7 is about $300, this ram doesn't even have its own heatsink and is only CL3. why is ram with a heatsink and CL2( which is faster) about 200 $$ cheaper? is there any difference in the ram or is apple trying to make a big profit ?

I found out that there is nothing special about the
ram.. and the corsair ram is a lot faster and better
So, is the Corsair ram you are talking about that which TigerDirect.com has advertised over at dealmac.com today. The after rebate price for a 1Gb stick of 4200 is about $45. Not too bad if it would work in a Quad.

I-Book more expensive than Amazon Why????

I am new to Mac technology, I have just bought a Macbook Air; excited about i-Books I went to purchase a book I need the Complete works of Seneca . I was disappointed to find that the Delphi series is much more expensive on i-Book than Amazon Why????

Prices in the iBookstore are set by the publisher (not apple), so ask them.
If you want to buy from Amazon, just download the Kindle app and read them on your Macbook with that.

Why are TV shows (like Supernatural) so much more expensive to download (SD or HD) than sites like Amazon?

Why are TV shows (like Supernatural) so much more expensive to download (SD or HD) than sites like Amazon?

They aren't really that much cheaper on Amazon. For Supernatural season 7, each single episode in HD is $2.99, same as iTunes. If you buy the whole season on Amazon, it's $2.84 per episode. Maybe $2 cheaper to buy on Amazon.
Remember though, on Amazon, you can't sync the videos onto an iPad/iPod/iPhone or Apple TV. In iTunes you can.
I prefer to buy on iTunes simply for the convenience, iTunes makes all the differance.

Since loading Lion, I've experienced much more instability than Snow Leopard. In particular, Mail crashes with regularity, full-screen apps seem to run slower and show the beach ball more often for longer, etc. I'm disappointed with the performance. Any

Since loading Lion, I've experienced much more instability than Snow Leopard. In particular, Mail crashes with regularity, full-screen apps seem to run slower and show the beach ball more often for longer, etc. I love the features, but I'm disappointed with the performance. Any help coming from Apple? I've been sending them so many reports after crashes, that their file must be full!

Summoning max. courage, I did what you advised. Here is the result. What does this tell you? My Lion 7.2 (mid 2011 iMac) has several annoying glitches (which I have so far tolerated through gritted teeth) but none that have actually stopped me working.
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Steve-Kirkbys-iMac:~ stevekirkby$ sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk ' !/0x|apple|com\.vix|edu\.|org\./ { print $3 } '
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com.sony.PMBPortable.AutoRun
uk.co.markallan.clamxav.freshclam
com.veoh.webplayer.startup
com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.volumeWatcher
com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.trashSizeWatcher
com.adobe.ARM.202f4087f2bbde52e3ac2df389f53a4f123223c9cc56a8fd83a6f7ae
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AudioMixEngine.framework
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iLifeKit.framework
iLifePageLayout.framework
iLifeSQLAccess.framework
iLifeSlideshow.framework
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AdobePDFViewer.plugin
EPPEX Plugin.plugin
Flash Player.plugin
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin
JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
Quartz Composer.webplugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin
SharePointWebKitPlugin.webplugin
Silverlight.plugin
flashplayer.xpt
iPhotoPhotocast.plugin
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com.sony.PMBPortable.AutoRun.plist
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com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist
com.apple.remotepairtool.plist
com.bombich.ccc.plist
com.bombich.ccc.scheduledtask.067493DB-2728-4DF3-87D8-092EF69086E8.plist
com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
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Why are Macbooks so much more expensive in NZ compared to US?

Hi,
Just wondering why the apple products are so much more expensive in NZ than in US. I am looking at getting a new macbook pro 17" and saw it is NZ$4149, and US$2500. So I used the exchange rates to convert US$2500 to NZ$. It came to approx $3000. So why are they making us pay another $1000 in NZ??

Economies of scale most likely.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Economies_of_scale
Your question should be looked at in the opposite "Why are US citizens getting a discount?"
If you compare the two economies and what people tend to buy perhaps that would shed some light.
Perhaps the "Apple halo effect" doesn't reach OZ?

I have $8.05 balance on my gift card. I tried to buy an app more expensive than that so i had to add my credit card to the apple account. But I couldn't use the balance from the gift card anymore. How can I select to use it? or did I lose it?

I have $8.05 balance on my gift card. I tried to buy an app more expensive than that so i had to add my credit card to the apple account. But I couldn't use the balance from the gift card anymore. How can I select to use it? or did I lose it?

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My iphone is currently using battery life much more quickly than inthe past, and it also has an icon tht is starying on the screen, to the left of the battery charge percentage, that looks like a lock with a circle around it

i have an iphone that is using battery life much more quickly than in the past, a full charge is going to zero in a half a day or so, with out much use.
an icon is also appearing next to the charge percentage in the top right, and the icon is a circle around a lock
can anyone tell me what the problem is, and what the icon means?

The Icon meas your display orientation is locked to vertical so it wont change when you turn the phone sideways.
First thing you should check with the battery life is multitasking, which also happens to be where the orientation lock can be turned off. check out http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4211 and go from there

OR is taking much more time than UNION

hi gems..
i have written a query using UNION clause and it took 12 seconds to give result.
then i wrote the same query using OR operator and then it took 78 seconds to give the resultset.
The tables which are referred by this qurey have no indexes.
the cost plans for the query with OR is also much more lesser than that with UNION.
please suggest why OR is taking more time.
thanks in advance

Here's a ridiculously simple example. (these tables don't even have any rows in them)
If you had separate indexes on col1 and col2, the optimizer might use indexes in the union but not in the or statement:
Which is faster will depend on the usual list of things.
Of course, the union also requires a sort operation.
SQL> create table table1
2 (col1 number, col2 number, col3 number, col4 number);
Table created.
SQL> create index t1_idx1 on table1(col1);
Index created.
SQL> create index t1_idx2 on table1(col2);
Index created.
SQL> explain plan for
2 select col1, col2, col3, col4
3 from table1
4 where col1> = 123
5 or col2 <= 456;
Explained.
SQL> @xp
| Id | Operation         | Name   | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT |        |     1 |    52 |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 1 | TABLE ACCESS FULL| TABLE1 |     1 |    52 |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
   1 - filter("COL1">=123 OR "COL2"<=456)
SQL> explain plan for
2 select col1, col2, col3, col4
3 from table1
4 where col1 >= 123
5 union
6 select col1, col2, col3, col4
7 from table1
8 where col2 <= 456;
Explained.
SQL> @xp
| Id | Operation                     | Name    | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT              |         |     2 |   104 |     4 (75)| 00:00:01 |
|   1 | SORT UNIQUE                  |         |     2 |   104 |     4 (75)| 00:00:01 |
|   2 |   UNION-ALL                   |         |       |       |            |          |
|   3 |    TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| TABLE1 |     1 |    52 |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 4 |     INDEX RANGE SCAN          | T1_IDX1 |     1 |       |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   5 |    TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| TABLE1 |     1 |    52 |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 6 |     INDEX RANGE SCAN          | T1_IDX2 |     1 |       |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
   4 - access("COL1">=123)
   6 - access("COL2"<=456)

Why is the iTunes shop in Australia more expensive than the rest of the world?

Why is the iTunes shop in Australia more expensive than the rest of the world?

How do you know that there is not parity?
Do you know Apples expenses in each country?
Apple has to sell the music for the price that they can negotiate with the owners of the distribution rights in each country.
Perhaps those who own the rights to distribute the music in Australia simply negotiated a higher price.

Album more expensive than sum of tracks

I've found that with some albums, the album is more expensive than all the individual tracks together.
For example, take Staind's new album:
http://music.ovi.com/za/en/pc/Product/Staind/Staind/19390411
Note: I can only see the South African pricing - don't know how the pricing works in other countries.
It contains 10 tracks, costing R8 each, giving a total of R80.
However, the album costs R100. Why is the album more expensive? Does it contain anything more than the tracks? This is one example, but I've seen a few others as well.

No reason to buy a more expensive album, if you can get the individual tracks separately for less.
I have no insight to record lable pricing. This one sounds a bit like an accident/mistake.
Compare also the pricing in, e.g., Apple's iTunes store and other music services that are offered in your country; if they sell the tracks or the album as MP3's or AAC's, or even WMA, you can use them on your Nokia phone. Make sure you buy them without any DRM (Digital Rights Management) protection ("plain" audio files).

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