Prices are set at what the market will bear. The US market will bear a lot more than the Thai market for these books, but I assume the publisher isn't losing money on its Thai sales; they're still profitable.
So the publisher profited from selling these books to the reseller, who profited from selling them in the US. Ergo the publisher would still have made money selling them in the US at the same prices as the reseller did.
Globalization doesn't have to benefit just the corporations.
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