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Originally Posted by HarryT
Public domain classics are very often mislabelled in bookstores. I suspect you'll find that the expensive version of the book genuinely is the "Penguin Classics" edition with introduction, extensive notes, appendices, etc, whereas the cheaper versions are the "raw" public domain text.
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Harry, I only mentioned the book from 19 century as an example, same happened to me with newly published non public domain books as well.
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Originally Posted by Billi
Because he can do it? Different markets? The very same t-shirt, for example, is also more expensive here in Germany than in India, and I'm afraid the ratio is much worse than 3:1.
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I was thinking that physical goods are something different and that in ebooks there are no transport costs etc...I mean, you can store your own books in the cloud so I presume Kobo or Amazon do the same or similar thing with "theirs" as well...