in my last two black market tours that
focus on drugs in Mumbai and Delhi and
those were really really risky video
still it inter the much safer world of
counterfeit books and I'm here at the
Daria gunch Sunday Book Fair and you can
find so much here including buying books
by the K G but if you want to buy new
books you need to be aware there's so
many other new books here are just
counterfeit so I'm gonna show you how to
identify those counterfeits and if you
want to buy counterfeit books you need
to know how much you should be paying
for them so you're not getting ripped
off and you can tell I'm in the right
place because I've already been sold a
fake bottle of this Leary water called
bristly yeah I'm really at the right
black market here now I've got a copy of
Michelle Obama's number one selling book
it's not the kind of book I would read
I'd rather be reading about Indira
Gandhi anyway we're gonna use this book
and we're going to go around the market
and try and find some kind of the copies
we're gonna find out what the best price
is we can get for those kind of eight
copies and then I'll show you how to
like compare and make sure you're buying
a real copy if that's what you want
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okay so the pricing is pretty clear now
it's based on the thickness of the book
and that Michelle Obama book is pretty
thick so a hundred rupees is the best
you're going to get these guys need to
make a little bit of profit as well I'm
getting there wholesale is somewhere
around maybe fifty sixty rupees per book
so the thin of the books the cheaper
it'll be if it's really FET it's going
to be like a hundred to one hundred and
fifty rupees and as a foreigner I don't
think you're gonna get below one hundred
and fifty rupees or two hundred rupees
for a book you have a bargain harder
maybe you'll get it for a hundred rupees
there are a number of ways to tell a
fake from a real book and the first one
is the print job and the print job in
this Canopus is so bad the covers look
like they've been photocopied literally
one of them's met actually in the other
ones shiny and the print jobs in these
books can be so bad that sometimes
they're eating missing pages like it's
just a blank photocopy page I had that
when I brought shunt around off the
street here in Mumbai I mean great place
to buy because it was sit there but yeah
the counterfeit copy was missing so many
pages of such a thick book so you could
totally understand why they screwed up
photocopying a bunch of the pages and
now on then inside the book nothing is
printed straight it's all on an angle
and then when you get to the photos the
photo printing is terrible in the middle
of the book as well secondly check the
binding most authentic books don't use
this kind of thin white glue they use
kind of a thick almost clear glue that
will keep the book bound together these
books the glue is so thin on them that
they're just gonna fall apart after one
read or so and then thirdly you have the
huge huge price difference so the
counterfeit book with under two dollars
American and their authentic book was
around eleven dollars or fourteen
dollars if you want that
coffee so basically if you're buying a
book and it's not from a legitimate
retail store here in India it's likely a
counterfeit if you're buying it here off
the street and I understand why Indians
buy these kind of the books because for
the price of one book seven or eight
hundred rupees they can buy like tin
home water depending on the thickness of
the book right and Indians just don't
have seven or eight hundred rupees
laying around you know the average
Indian doesn't have that much to spend
on one book so I get why this kind of
cut to hair and why people are buying
them but obviously the author doesn't
get paid from these kind of a books and
if you want to find them you can find
them at daddy a guns market you can find
them outside every single Metro and
India on the street corners and while
you're at an intersection a guy will
knock on your window and tell you them
as well so there yeah absolutely
everywhere Jai Hindi