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Originally Posted by HarryT
Likewise, I paid £250 (almost $400) for the "Oxford Latin Dictionary" (the definitive dictoinary of Classical Latin). Specialist books have small a market and will always be expensive. The OLD is never going to be sold for £10.
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Yet, at $400, it'll never have a wide circulation, while at $10 it could be a required text for every Latin class taught (since some kids do still learn it, that is thousands a year just in the US). Not that a dictionary that translates either spanish/english or "chinese"/English (two way, with quick lookup, at least on the english side) wouldn't probably sell many more.