time for love

So I decided to use facebook to go through my list of friends and plot a distribution of their months of birth...it speaks for itself. There's a bias here since I'm from India, but I'm willing to bet the same distribution works out in general.

book pricing

any idea why Rahul Bhattacharya's "The Sly Company of People Who Care" is priced at $30 at Amazon, and at INRs.371 at Flipkart? Surely the audiences are the same?

$30 = 30*50 = INRs.1500 approx. Rs.371 = 371/50 = $7.4 approx. Purchasing power parity needs to be adjusted, yes, but it couldn't be too acute for a product like this.

Methinks the Amazon pricing bot is not doing a great job. Unless it is accounting for the fact that if I order from Flipkart, I'll have to pay shipping charges, which are about $20. That still doesn't make sense, because surely Amazon could ship the book cheaper.