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Originally Posted by thinkpadx
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.
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I've heard it said that the last Harry Potter was available in translation in Danish even before it was published in English, for they wouldn't have sold any the other way around???