Pricing to formula” has given way to “pricing to Amazon” on imports , and the pricing of local titles and. The price of books here is criminal and the only reason is greed on the part of the publishers and booksellers. I very rarely buy books here now but instead get them from Amazon in the USA.
Even with high freight charges and currency. If you were to get a working visa, then there are.
You will however be expected to have. There are also additional tariffs (basically, sales tax by another name) on books from overseas. A basic paper back is $22!
Back in the UK you would expect to pay the equivalent of $1 why the difference? At this rate, ordering books on Amazon US is cheaper than buying them. Textbooks cost so much because the author’s work is protected by a government-granted monopoly on the product, in this case, a copyright.
Five years after the parallel imports debate things have changed. Other books in the shop also costs a lot more than in many foreign countries.
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