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- From: ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning)
- Subject: Re: High Prices of Math Books. I am pissed.
- In-Reply-To: mhiroshi@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp's message of 27 Dec 92 17:24:42 GMT
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- Organization: Computing Research Lab
- References: <3800@tansei1.tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 23:36:52 GMT
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- In article <3800@tansei1.tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> mhiroshi@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (H. Murakami) writes:
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- | If they can sell paperback versions in the international
- | market why can't it be done within the US, one might ask.
- | That is a different issue altogether...
- |
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- The practice of selling something in high price domestically,
- and in cheap at foreign should be called "dumping", and may be
- called as an unfair trading.
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- i am sure that the japanese can teach us all a lesson about this
- practice.
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- but note that the original talked about selling the hardcover edition
- in the US, and the paperback edition abroad. this is hardly dumping
- since the two editions different products. the practice stems from
- the fact that expensive paperbacks sell in europe, while in this
- country, people buying expensive books want a hardback. note that the
- hardback books in question generally sell for higher prices abroad,
- not lower. i don't really know why book prices in general are so
- exorbitant in europe, certainly the size of the tariffs is not
- sufficient to explain the difference.
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- The Western book publisher in recent years establish their
- branch in Japan, and distribution of the books are dominated through
- their channel. We usually find they use the currency conversion rate
- around 200yens/dollar or more (the true rate is 125yen/dollars).
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- true rate?
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- currency conversion is a marketplace. if you want to do the
- conversion, then get whatever price you can. if you want them to do
- the conversion, then they can charge whatever price they like.
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- Even we try to order to the US book publisher directly expecting
- to get the 125yen/dollar rating of the prices, what those publisher
- will do to us is just ignore the order or circulate the order to
- those Japanese branch which we would not want to.
-
- this is actually typical of most companies that maintain sales
- territories.
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- The only way to escape these dirty practice is order the books
- not the the publisher directly but order a book seller in USA
- who is not controlled by the publishing jiants.
-
- this sounds like a fine way around the problem.
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- btw.... you shouldn't get me started on the practices of *japanese*
- publishing companies regarding foreign orders. they make US and
- european companies look like pussy cats.
-