It often ceases to amaze me that here in Australia I can often buy books at 33-50% of the price that I can buy them retail locally. That's with international a

It often ceases to amaze me that here in Australia I can often buy books at 33-50% of the price that I can buy them retail locally. That's with international air freight and all. I guess it's less sustainable than if books were otherwise printed locally. Though a lot of stuff is here is printed in Asia anyway and tech books are printed in the USA. If books are sent by air freight to local distributers I guess it's the same. That said, I'm also finding bookdepository.co.uk cheaper and despite the greater distance shipping is much quicker from Europe than the US. (Many of the books I've ordered through them have been printed in Europe as well).