​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@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
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Stella Sandahl