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- From: Interested
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- Subject: Re: High Prices of Math Books. I am pissed.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.180702.12419@news.nd.edu>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 18:07:02 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan09.202015.19777@eng.umd.edu> clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles
- Lin) writes:
- >
- > I have heard (and seen) paperbacks sold in India (and possibly
- Taiwan)
- > which are sold for a fraction of the cost in the US. I suspect these
- > countries have pretty lax copyright laws, and no one could really afford
- > the equivalent of a thirty dollar American book in rupees, anyway. The
- > two combined means that companies that want to make any money on the
- book,
- > have to sell it dirt cheap. The paper quality is usually not quite as
- > good though.
- I would not like to comment on Taiwan, but in India, pirated
- version of US books are not available. What is available are asian
- editions printed in New Delhi/Singapore/etc which have a low list price
- (I assume it is due to the lower production costs). If one wishes to
- obtain books with US editions, they cost as much as they do here.
-
- Acharya
-