teddog

A while back I had a discussion with Von about how the prices of books haven't been falling as the exchange rate has become closer to the American dollar. For those of you outside of Canada, book provide us with a look at the differences between the markets; for example, a book from... say... Viz can cost $9.99 US and $13.99 CND. It's very annoying at times.

Behold! I have noticed a change in the prices of Viz's graphic novel releases. Examples:

Fullmetal Alchemist 1 - 9 are $13.95.
Fullmetal Alchemust 10 (to be released in November) and onward are going to be $12.99. This might be a change because the length of the series, but there's other series changing too.

Read or Die 1 - $13.95
Read or Die 2 (released last month, I think) and onward - $12.50

Monster 1 - 4 - $13.95
Monster 5 (to be released in October) and onward - $12.99

Note that these are only releases that I personally follow, but I'm willing to bet there's other ones changing too. In terms of "heavy hitters", Bleach, InuYasha and Naruto all have upcoming price changes. No word on Ouran High School Host Club, though, Katers.

Also, the American list prices are remaining the same, so this is Viz performing a Canadian price correction based on the higher Canadian dollar. Actually, the American price for Read or Die is falling by a dollar but that's not happening until volume 3, so the Canadian one is happening first.

It's not a massive change, but that's the first response I've seen to the higher dollar on the manga front. Admittedly, manga is easier to judge since the amount and time of releases provides an easy way to compare. If anyone else has seen any changes, I wanna know!