"a textbook priced at $50 overseas might cost $100 in the US."
It might be $50, but it also contains less content/problem sets. Some of the cheap books published in countries like India have as little as 15-20% of the content than the same US edition contains.
This will only hurt those countries. Publishers will just stop producing International editions and you will have the same, high priced edition, world-wide..which will price many of those people out of the market completely.
It might be $50, but it also contains less content/problem sets. Some of the cheap books published in countries like India have as little as 15-20% of the content than the same US edition contains.
This will only hurt those countries. Publishers will just stop producing International editions and you will have the same, high priced edition, world-wide..which will price many of those people out of the market completely.