killing me with book prices

I always wonder, why English books are so expensive, and the English readers seems to care less ?

I am a Chinese Educated, I have a thisrt for book ever since childhood, but my family wasn't as wealthy, therefore I went to bookshop every weekend, stay half day and read.

When I grown up, I read less and less, work demand more time of me. But recently am a bit settle down, and regain my hobby.

I then realised that English books are more expensive, compare with Chinese books, even Chinese book getting more expensive now, which I turn to pirating copies, not ashame to admit that.

Well, in Malaysia , if you were a book lover and crazy about reading, this habit alone can make you a broke guy. So why on earth we need to buy the original copy.

Pirating is a million dolars business cater for the poor and people who crazed for book and knowledge like me.

I love Reader's Digest  since childhood, but this magazine book sold RM15 a copy, and it's not a thick copy anymore, even National Geography increased to RM20.

So , I just get the old magazine, which only cost RM4 for an old copy.

I make a wish then, to have the government, the bookshop operators, the authors, and the publishers sit together and come up with something that could bring down the book price. 20% cut would be a good start.

If not we are going to make the city a 'culture desert'（文化沙漠）, a derog description on people read less and made the countries'  knowledge and culture as "dry" as desrt.