​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

ssandahl@sympatico.ca