Was just reponding to a similar post in another thread. David's first reply was very much in the Adobe company line, that is often stated as follows. "Our pricing methodology takes into consideration the costs of doing business in different regions and customer research that assesses the value of the product in the local market. Conditions vary between markets and it’s difficult to make a straight comparison between countries." http://desktopmag.com.au/news/adobes-cs6-pricing-explanation/ There are many articles, blog posts and other discussions about the above where people don't really buy the 'cost of doing business' being so much higher, particularly with products in English (other languages have development and maintenance costs that could result in those products being more expensive). In Australia, I have seen that the Creative Cloud price is significantly higher than the USA. However, the educational price for Creative Cloud is in line with the US price. In fact, with current exhange rates, it's slighly cheaper. So, taking the Adobe model of pricing to regions based on what they can bear, they have realised that education would not bear this inflated price. Dean
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