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Originally Posted by Pax
For example Haruki Murakami's book 1Q84 Book 3 costs 19,99 € (~ 26,15 USD).
This price tag is too high, that's why I prefer to buy the English translation from Kobobooks. There you can get it for half the price (excluding any coupons).
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I bought that book on the day of its release and I believe that the price is appropriate as the publisher commissioned a translation directly from the Japanese by a top translator instead of going the cheap and nasty way of using a translation of the English version. The German version of books 1&2 was also available a full year prior to their release in English. This sort of quality publishing receives my support, whatever the format.
To my knowledge the English version also had a different interpreter for book 3 than they had for books 1&2. What sort of nonsense is that for a novel?
As to DC 3s: I recall flying on one on a regular flight in Venezuela in the late 1990s. A fabulous flight at low height across the Orinoco delta and over the table mountains.