There are also international editions. But the quality is highly variable. Brooks-Cole-Cenage and Macmillan are high quality, same as US edition, except maybe paperback instead of hard cover. Wiley-India is total crap. I bought one of theirs, and it had missing pages. I returned it and bought another. It had a splotch of missing text. I returned it and bought the US edition. These international editions are totally legal to purchase and resell in the US, despite warnings printed in the books that they are not for sale in the US and Canada. www.textbookrush.com boasts that they sell international editions. When looking to buy a book, I like to use www.bookfinder.com They aggregate listings from many different sellers. -- Gene
________________________________ From: Joerg Arndt <arndt@jjj.de> To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 5:22 AM Subject: Re: [math-fun] online GKP
* Simon Plouffe <simon.plouffe@gmail.com> [Sep 20. 2014 13:29]:
The book is 58 euros on amazon.fr, 1 day for me,
If price matters, there are very often used books on sale: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0201558025/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&co...
x-months in China, y-months in africa. many days of work in South America, 4674 roupies = 80 dollars in India and the average salary is 1570 dollars a year, 3+ billion people can't buy it, half of humans ? C'est indécent.
Are companies required to sell things cheaper in poorer nations? No, perhaps except for things like medication.
Of course it would be a good thing, and indeed several publisher offer books cheaper (often significantly so) in places like India (like for 3 dollars instead of 40).
The reason why I did that is simple. The Ramanujan Notebooks are about 60000 roupies.
http://www.amazon.in/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=...
1 volume 13484 roupies, salaries = from 400000 to 900000 roupies a year but this is for engineers/computer scientists which gives (?) 1 month of salary for average people.
in fact, the price is about the same or higher in other countries compared to u.s.a. but the local salaries are far from the same.
No need to look far away: when I was a student I simply could not afford the required books. So I xero-copied them in whole, cutting down the cost to almost zero.
best regards, Simon Plouffe
All that said, I have not much love left for the print publishers. Still a long way to go to the large music and film companies, how these managed to become universally hated is beyond funny.
Best, jj
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________________________________ From: Joerg Arndt <arndt@jjj.de> To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 5:22 AM Subject: Re: [math-fun] online GKP
* Simon Plouffe <simon.plouffe@gmail.com> [Sep 20. 2014 13:29]:
The book is 58 euros on amazon.fr, 1 day for me,
If price matters, there are very often used books on sale: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0201558025/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&co...
x-months in China, y-months in africa. many days of work in South America, 4674 roupies = 80 dollars in India and the average salary is 1570 dollars a year, 3+ billion people can't buy it, half of humans ? C'est indécent.
Are companies required to sell things cheaper in poorer nations? No, perhaps except for things like medication.
Of course it would be a good thing, and indeed several publisher offer books cheaper (often significantly so) in places like India (like for 3 dollars instead of 40).
The reason why I did that is simple. The Ramanujan Notebooks are about 60000 roupies.
http://www.amazon.in/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=...
1 volume 13484 roupies, salaries = from 400000 to 900000 roupies a year but this is for engineers/computer scientists which gives (?) 1 month of salary for average people.
in fact, the price is about the same or higher in other countries compared to u.s.a. but the local salaries are far from the same.
No need to look far away: when I was a student I simply could not afford the required books. So I xero-copied them in whole, cutting down the cost to almost zero.
best regards, Simon Plouffe
All that said, I have not much love left for the print publishers. Still a long way to go to the large music and film companies, how these managed to become universally hated is beyond funny.
Best, jj
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