John,
I’d say one reason it is produced as a physical volume is that those of us who purchased the preceding fifteen volumes would be mighty angry if they didn’t. But fear not, you will be able to subscribe to HBW Alive shortly: http://www.lynxeds.com/content/hbw-alive-entire-contents-hbw-your-fingertips
I understand Oxford University Press owns the copyright to HANZAB so any online version would have to be driven by them, not Birdlife Australia.
Murray
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If it’s the Australian retailers to blame, why is it that in this case the wholesale price is similar to the online OS price? Are the OS wholesalers gouging the Australian dealers, or are the online dealers just taking miniscule profits on each book?
Peter Shute
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I do not mean to over simplify (or sound too cynical) but in my opinion the answer to why do retailers charge so much for things in Australia is “because they can.” The justification is profit. Australians have put up with high prices for years, but the global awareness that exists now has shown them how ridiculously over priced many things are here and that may be beginning to have an impact. We will see.
R. Bruce Richardson
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Actually I expect the price difference is due to Australia’s changing currency. It’s only a few years ago that € 212 would have been $430 AUD. Very few retailers change international prices in line with currency changes, and are especially unlikely to change prices to reduce profit.
Jeremy
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