From: Michael Schuerig <michael@...>
Date: 2008-05-23T01:00:39+09:00
Subject: Re: 7 Ruby Programming ebook

On Thursday 22 May 2008, Avdi Grimm wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Camilo <camilor@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Rest of the world,
> > An O'Reilly book costing $45 in the USA costs significantly much
> > more in Peru; instead of making a straight conversion, think on
> > monthly minimum wages.
>
> I was under the impression that publishers priced differently in
> different markets.  Is this not the case?

That may be true for academic textbooks where several publishers 
have "international" (read: non-US) editions. For technical books in 
general this doesn't appear to be true. I live in Germany and often 
find that it is cheaper to order books from amazon.com than from 
amazon.de, even taking customs duty into account.

Michael

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