Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: Waterstones, Amazon,Diesel eBook store
Reason for Lost Sale: Not available digitally in region
Price of Lost Sale: 9.99 AUD – Australian Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: Australia
What you did instead: Bought a used copy

Comments:

Agent: Unknown

Stay Close by Harlen Coben

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: Amazon
Reason for Lost Sale: Price
Price of Lost Sale: 20.76 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: Australia
What you did instead: Bought a different book

Comments: $20.76 for Kindle edition, $17.73 for brand new Hardcover, that is obscene for an eBook that I am unable to give or lend when I’ve finished reading it. The Publishers obviously set pricing on eBooks, are the trying to price then off the market??

Agent: Unknown

The Harry Bosch Collection by Michael Connelly

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: Amazon Uk
Reason for Lost Sale: Not available digitally in region
Price of Lost Sale: 54.99 GBP – British Pound
Country of Lost Sale: Australia
What you did instead: Read fan fiction or a different book

Comments: I could only find this Collection in Digital Format from UK sellers and the Territorial Restrictions prevent me from Buying it. Kiss yet another sale good-bye.

Agent: Unknown

Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: Amazon.co.uk
Reason for Lost Sale: Price
Price of Lost Sale: 9.99 GBP – British Pound
Country of Lost Sale: United Kingdom
What you did instead: Watched a movie

Comments: The Kindle edition is priced higher than the hardback edition, which is frankly ridiculous. Have waited years for the release of one of my favourite authors new work but ten pounds for an ebook is not even worth considering when so much brilliant content is available on the same site for free and for less than a fiver.

Agent: Unknown

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: B&N
Reason for Lost Sale: Price
Price of Lost Sale: 12.99 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: United States
What you did instead: Read fan fiction or a different book

Comments: Really, the paperback is less? And that makes sense in what universe?

Agent: Unknown

Never Look Away by Linwood Barclay

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: Amazon uk
Reason for Lost Sale: Price
Price of Lost Sale: 4.99 GBP – British Pound
Country of Lost Sale: United Kingdom
What you did instead: Bought a different book

Comments: Yet another one where the digital price is higher than the paperback. I chose a different book from Amazon and with what I saved bought this one from a charity shop for £1.79.

Agent: Unknown

The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: Amazon uk
Reason for Lost Sale: Price
Price of Lost Sale: 9.99 GBP – British Pound
Country of Lost Sale: United Kingdom
What you did instead: Bought a different book

Comments: Every cloud has a silver lining. By avoiding greedy agency publishers I have considerably expanded my range of authors to include some I might never have tried. Who needs Michael Connelly when there are thousands of good authors who don’t have Luddite publishers?

Agent: Unknown

Dark Matter by Michelle Paver

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: Amazon uk
Reason for Lost Sale: Price
Price of Lost Sale: 6.99 GBP – British Pound
Country of Lost Sale: United Kingdom
What you did instead: Bought a different book

Comments: £6.99 for an ebook, and I could buy the hardback for £6.20 or used for £4.95. No thanks, too many fairly-priced books available. Another publisher to go on my black list, well done Orion.

Agent: Unknown

Life by Keith Richards

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: Amazon
Reason for Lost Sale: Price
Price of Lost Sale: 8.99 GBP – British Pound
Country of Lost Sale: United Kingdom
What you did instead: Borrowed a book from a friend

Comments: £3 more expensive than the paperback version which I consider unreasonable. Price was set by publisher.

Agent: Unknown

Intimate Adventures Of A London Call Girl by Belle de Jour

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: Borders, Dymocks, Angus & Robertson
Reason for Lost Sale: Not available digitally in region
Price of Lost Sale: 0.00 AUD – Australian Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: Australia
What you did instead: Other Read news feeds

Comments: Dymocks had entries for the e-book, but no price, suggesting it will be available, but not yet. I also would have tried Amazon, but I have a Kobo reader, not a Kindle. I will probably borrow it from my council library.

Agent: Unknown Patrick Walsh at Conville & Walsh

The Beach Hut by Veronica Henry

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase:
Reason for Lost Sale: Not available in preferred digital format
Price of Lost Sale: 4.39 GBP – British Pound
Country of Lost Sale: Netherlands
What you did instead: Bought a different book

Comments: Not available digitally.

Agent: Unknown

The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: Amazon.co.uk
Reason for Lost Sale: Price
Price of Lost Sale: 7.99 GBP – British Pound
Country of Lost Sale: United Kingdom
What you did instead: Bought a different book

Comments: Charging more for a restricted electronic version than for the paperback makes no sense!

Agent: Unknown

Always Forever by Mark Chadbourn

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase:
Reason for Lost Sale: Not available in preferred digital format
Price of Lost Sale: 7.99 GBP – British Pound
Country of Lost Sale: Australia
What you did instead: Borrowed a book from the library

Comments:

Agent: Unknown

The Woods by Harlen Coben

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase: Barnes & Noble (geo restriction), Sony (geo restriction)
Reason for Lost Sale: Not available digitally in region
Price of Lost Sale: 8.99 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: Netherlands
What you did instead: Bought a different book

Comments: Unable to purchase due to Geographical Restrictions.

Agent: Unknown

overtime by tom holt

Preferred format: Digital
Attempted place of purchase:
Reason for Lost Sale: Price
Price of Lost Sale: 6.99 GBP – British Pound
Country of Lost Sale: United Kingdom
What you did instead: Bought a used copy

Comments: wanted to read this book on the kindle but the price was to high bought book secondhand for £2.76

Agent: Unknown

Heaven’s Prisoners by James Lee Burke

Preferred format: Digital
Reason for Lost Sale: Not available digitally in region
Price of Lost Sale: 0.00 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: United States
What you did instead: Surfed the web

Comments: US author but only a handful of his books are available digitally in the US. Almost all of his titles are available digitally in the UK or elsewhere.

The Rats and the Ruling Sea by Robert Redick

Preferred format: Digital
Reason for Lost Sale: Price
Price of Lost Sale: 9.67 USD – US Dollar
Country of Lost Sale: Australia
What you did instead: Bought a different book

Comments: Paperback price 7.99 – another Agency pricing lie.

The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi

Reason for Lost Sale: Price
Price of Lost Sale: 12.00 GBP – British Pound
Country of Lost Sale: Afghanistan
What you did instead: Bought a different book

Comments: Not available at release despite being hyped because of idiotic dispute with retailers re: agency pricing. Same retailers of course won’t sell to us at all.

Entertainingly, the UK ebook retailers by refusing to sell outside the country would appear to have doomed themselves to a smaller and smaller slice of their pie only as competition grows – and Amazon is one of these, of course.