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Originally Posted by GlennD
When you were getting books for mere cents, were they written by authors who were living under the same regime, or were they written by foreign authors who weren't getting any royalties for them?
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Both. The books by foreign authors were translations. I have no idea if they were paid anything at all or not.
You could not order directly from foreign countries yourself, just as you could not travel to foreign countries whenever you wanted (except within the borders of the USSR). You could read only what was locally available.