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Originally Posted by Ea
Not sure whether to call it a "problem" or not, but books as such are quite expensive in Denmark. A newly published book, in hardback or trade paperback is about the equivalent of $40-50. Ordinary paperbacks, published 6 months later or so, is about the half. E-books though (and it's still quite few) are overall a bit cheaper than printed books. However, so far it's only of the few big publishers who've dipped their toes, so the market is still very very young.
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I would say that books in Scandinavia is quite expensive and the argument for this is that the market isn't as big as that of the English. There are only so many people up here in the north, and the people interested in reading books is declining with competition from Film, TV, Internet. I'm not sure I contribute either since I tend to read more and more foreign authors and then reading the books in English.