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An interesting question. As an author, my books are low-cost no matter where you buy and you can also buy most of them from my blog/website no matter where you live. Now, that may still be too much for someone living in India or some people living in Mexico. The market forces are different in different countries. I can set a different price on Amazon for different countries, but I choose not to. I did think about it because I'm well aware of economic differences, however, my prices are much lower than other books to begin with. And I'm not in India so I don't want to make too many leaps when it comes to pricing. My books go on sale now and then and are sometimes 99 cents--which is as low as a book can be set on most vendors in any country (the equivalent).
Hmm. As a purchaser would I change my location or otherwise work to get the better price? Yes, probably. Would the author make less? Not necessarily. Depends on her contract. Sometimes authors get a bigger percentage just for selling foreign rights. I know agents take a larger cut of foreign sales when it comes to their commissions. I guess as a reader, I'd go for the lower price because I can't know what the publisher is going to get, what the author gets, how hard the agent worked, etc. Too many pieces to consider, and at the buying end, if I can save a few bucks, I'm not going to get too concerned over their problem. I want the author (and others) to get their due, but I also believe in shopping around, be it comparing Amazon to B&N or Amazon UK to Amazon US, etc. It's in my nature and if it were easy enough to do, I'd buy from the low cost producer.
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