Re: Not relevant to mathematics but,

From: A N Niel (anniel_at_nym.alias.net.invalid)
Date: 01/05/05 

Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 08:36:03 -0500

In article <41dbd76a$0$2690$7a214f24@news.kaist.ac.kr>, Taedong Yun
<nomail@noaddress.not> wrote:

> when buying textbooks for mathematics course, a huge price difference exists
> between the book being sold in U.S and in South Korea, even though they are
> exactly same books.
>
> For example
> "Real Analysis 3rd ed." by Royden is about $100 at Amazon, but the same
> book(same edition, same publisher), which is imported from U.S., is about
> $30 at a bookstore in South Korea.
>
> Do any of you guys know why this happens?
>
>

I don't know about this particular case, but one can find copies
of US texts produced in Asia where copyright laws are lax or ignored.
Probably the same way you can find the latest Hollywood
films on sale there for $5 ...

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