[INDOLOGY] New Catalogus Catalogorum

[Stella Sandahl]

Dear Dominik and all,
The postal rate has indeed gone up, but that's outside the listed dollar price.
And Rosanne informs us that the British are as bad...
Well, we book reading community seem to be some kind of dinosaurs anyway.
Sadly,
 Stella
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Stella Sandahl
ssandahl at sympatico.ca



On 2013-05-07, at 10:38 AM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:

> ​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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