I am cross posting this note because my current experience with LSI is puzzling. The good: quality of print books outstanding. My book "An Architect's Guide to Construction - Tales from the Trenches" is a nonfiction guide to construction for architects - 200+ diagrams, 70 chapters, LSI have done a great job. This type of book will sell more paperback than ebook, as it is pretty much a reference. It is available on Kindle and will be an epub shortly, also through LSI if they ever finish the corrections.
Here's the problem: as a Canadian I selected for the paperback $35 list prices in Canada, the US and Australia - I'm just taking less royalty in Canada and Australia. I also selected a 40% trade discount, on advice from various ALLI and other self-publsihers. Now it seems LSI is offering the book to booksellers in Canada, including Amazon.ca, through the Ingram Group at only a 20% trade discount off US$35, NOT CDN$35. Given the 20% currency discount, that means Canadian booksellers are being offered the book effectively at CDN$35, so naturally they are marking it up by 20% and I am back to the "Canadians pay more" scenario, not to mention the book clearly says $35 CAD on its back, and I clearly selected that price with LSI. I feel like an idiot!
This is all emerging in the past few days as the pricing anomalies have surfaced and I have been drilling through the LSI bureaucracy, so far with little success. Has anyone had similar issues?
Here's the problem: as a Canadian I selected for the paperback $35 list prices in Canada, the US and Australia - I'm just taking less royalty in Canada and Australia. I also selected a 40% trade discount, on advice from various ALLI and other self-publsihers. Now it seems LSI is offering the book to booksellers in Canada, including Amazon.ca, through the Ingram Group at only a 20% trade discount off US$35, NOT CDN$35. Given the 20% currency discount, that means Canadian booksellers are being offered the book effectively at CDN$35, so naturally they are marking it up by 20% and I am back to the "Canadians pay more" scenario, not to mention the book clearly says $35 CAD on its back, and I clearly selected that price with LSI. I feel like an idiot!
This is all emerging in the past few days as the pricing anomalies have surfaced and I have been drilling through the LSI bureaucracy, so far with little success. Has anyone had similar issues?