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Originally Posted by Sirtel
It is. Books, both paper and digital, are expensive in my country (the price is always in two digits for paper and usually in two digits for ebook, and it doesn't come down later either, unless the store wants to get rid of their stock - not applicable to ebooks, of course). And as I can't read library books on my Kobos, I rarely read books in my native language. Most of my reading is in English, where books are much cheaper (generally, that is - even if a new release is expensive, it usually will be discounted after a while).
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Do you think they are more expensive because they've been translated or is it just pure profiteering?