> But surely the publishers don't consider every country outside the US and Canada a third-world country in need of cheaper textbooks? Apparently, they do. I s

> But surely the publishers don't consider every country outside the US and Canada a third-world country in need of cheaper textbooks? Apparently, they do. I suppose competition might be healthier here: if a lot of students were to complain to a lecturer that the textbook for his course was prohibitively expensive, they would probably look into possible alternatives.