[INDOLOGY] New Catalogus Catalogorum

[Dominik Wujastyk]

​Dear Stella,

​I'm sorry your friends had a bad experience.  ​
​
D. K. Agencies
​normally ​
run a very professional service, with in-house MARC cataloguing to Library
of Congress standards. But my experience
​, dating back ​
about ten years
​,​
was also that they were
​good but ​
expensive.

Since then, the Indian Govt. has hugely ratcheted up the postal rates for
shipping books out of India.  It's a completely different prospect now,
than in the past, to send a book parcel from India to an international
destination.  And that has hit the international business of
​book distribution ​
companies
hard.

Best,
Dominik


On 7 May 2013 16:22, Stella Sandahl <ssandahl at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Dear Dominik and all,
> I am bombarded with different lists from D.K. Agencies in Delhi. Friends
> in Delhi tried to buy a book from them with the rupee price. They claimed
> they did not have it. Later a Canadian friend here in Toronto ordered it
> for me from their Delhi outlet at their very inflated dollar price.
>  I have long resented the inflated dollar prices which Indian book
> agencies seem to uniformly apply. What can be done about it? Except buying
> the books when in India.
> Best
> Stella
> --
> Stella Sandahl
> ssandahl at sympatico.ca
>
>
>
>


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