Hello ,
First of all , i know it is a business and they need to gain money to exist ( and that is fine ) , but let talk about the price and possible fix about shipping :
The price 180 $ , the book is big , 440 ish pages it seem right , now let look this book that i own : Genesis from sebastiao salgado
about the same size , more page (520 ) almost all pictures , great paper quality ---> the price 60 E ( 64 $ ) , ok it is mostly in black and white , but printing in color don't add too much of a cost , so i dont know how much profit there is in the sale of the artbook , but the price is way too much , it will not change ( because people already buy it ) , maybe a discount later ^^'
As for the shipping cost , 76 $ for Europe so 256 $ total , that is way tooo much , a solution to this is to print it direcly in Europe , asia , ext... these shipping cost are absurd !