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		kamaal on Nov 19, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on p... >>The books (and maybe exercises) slightly differ to the US prints to keep control of the market. No. They are mostly a little low quality books in terms of paper quality, photo graph color etc. Every thing else is the same. I buy a lot of books as I stay in India. US publishers partner with local publishers and get it printed and sold for cheap.

comprev on Nov 19, 2020 [–]

The academic text books are known to have different test questions so US students can't buy (relatively) dirt cheap "foreign" prints. The text might be the same elsewhere in the book though.

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