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For some reason, even US published books in Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan, Srilanka, Nepal etc) are a lot cheaper and give good value for money. There ar
by mayanksinghal 15y ago
For some reason, even US published books in Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan, Srilanka, Nepal etc) are a lot cheaper and give good value for money. There are some compromises made in terms of paper and print quality, but I am sure that it is not that big a deterrent for readers.
Is anyone aware why a similar price point is not offered in other parts of the world?
- pm90 15y agoessentially because that is not the "true price" that the publisher wants. The strategy of low cost editions was only meant to curb the flagrant piracy that was common in the earlier decades. With the explosion of engineering/technical schools in India, these publishers no longer wanted to forgo a market that they had previously thought was minuscule.