That&#x27;s easily explained though. Students don&#x27;t have a lot of money and textbooks are next to rent and in some cases tuition the most expensive thing you&#x27;re going to buy as a student.<p>Students in the US are already comfortable paying enormous amount of money for the education, students in Europe much less so and students in India and Pakistan simply can&#x27;t afford to pay what US students can.<p>Still even if your profit margin is much smaller, that&#x27;s still a large market, so you sell these books in India with a smaller profit margin and increase them in Europe and the US.<p>Additionally universities in the US forcing students to buy certain textbook creating monopolies also certainly doesn&#x27;t help prices to stay down.