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Ah, the downvotes from the extremely privileged (most of whom do not even realize this).

I am from one of those countries where we pretty much cannot afford "legal" content. In my shitty town the median salary is something like $300, at least half of which goes towards paying rent if you don't have your own house, while we're being asked to pay prices that were established for developed countries with median salaries at 10× of ours or above.

Steam is one of very few exceptions and it's really popular here even among students and such (just like everywhere else).

Basically, if you want to charge me $50 for the book, you're not losing anything, simply because I cannot afford it anyway. Imagine if you had to pay $500 for books, $600 for movies, etc.

[_thisdot]

Interesting. I don’t know where you’re from. But in India, usually publishers publish an Exclusive to South Asian market version of the book which costs around $4-$20.

For example, The Pragmatic Programmer costs $10 in Indian stores, while it costs $50 in US.

[anhner]

Completely agree, and most people in developed countries don't even realise or think about this.

[__rito__]

The median price of a programming book in India is what I could buy lunch and dinner with for a month while in college. For one book.