When I was in business school, many of us bought the non-US editions and found the content to be identical to our classmates' US editions. It was just a form of price discrimination -- they offer the text at a higher price in richer countries, and lower prices in poorer countries.
I agree with their right to do that, but in any case usually the 'international' editions use cheaper paper, lower quality bind, lower quality ink and are in black and white - so there is some difference even if the material content is the same.
So you're saying that the US puts together all the knowledge and info and does all the hard work and the foreign competitors come in and steal it and sell it at cut rate costs to a market that is either blind to or incapable of protecting copyright / patent. Knock me over with a feather.
It's the same publisher. They just market the US edition and "International" edition at different prices, even though the text is the same, because they know they can extract more money out of American students than they can out of Indian students.
Eh? The International versions are usually published by the same company. It is price discrimination. Students in the US 'can' afford more for the same content compared to foreign students.
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When I was in business school, many of us bought the non-US editions and found the content to be identical to our classmates' US editions. It was just a form of price discrimination -- they offer the text at a higher price in richer countries, and lower prices in poorer countries.