That's fair. And I'm jealous. I live in a pretty conservative European country, which also happens to be one where most books aren't published in English. If I want a physical book in English, I either have to pray that one of the big local book vendors have it on stock, which most of the time they don't. Amazon ships the cheapest here and even with them it costs at least as much as the item itself. So ebooks make the most sense, but Amazon overprices even those, so then I'd use something like Kobo, but their selection is a lot more limited.
The fact that the last time I bought a book online (it was We Are Okay by Nina LaCour) was last summer probably illustrates my situation. I've been aching for the official Bloom into You volumes since last year as well, and I still haven't been able to afford them. This is getting really off-topic though, so I'll just stop here.
So yeah, back to the topic, I'm also really grateful to those who are translating this light novel.
It really pisses me off how much ebooks cost. There is no physical product and thus there is a fraction of the overhead to e-publish vs actually printing a book yet they charge like 80% of the price of an actual book. It's for this reason that I always buy physical copies which kills trees and it burns fuel, time and money to ship them. There is just so more more value in having a real copy that you can resell, give away or lend to others when they are priced so similarly. They really need cut the prices on ebooks by like half to make them a fairer bargain.
It would be one thing if that massive profit margin on ebooks was going to the creators but its not. It's the publisher that takes most of it and they are barely doing anything for it.
I'm sorry you live somewhere that has such awful shipping prices.
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