If Students in the United States Go Online and Import

Multiple Choice

If students in the United States go online and import the much cheaper Indian version of your textbook instead of buying the American edition, how might this arbitrage nevertheless help the publisher of your textbook?

A) It makes the prices in India and the United States more equal.
B) It saves money on the color ink for the graphs.
C) The students who go to the trouble to do this might resell the books for the higher American price and make a profit.
D) The students who go to the trouble to do this might have had low willingness-to-pay in the first place, so the arbitrage enables another layer of price discrimination.