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4994320 No.4994320[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Why are books so expensive?

>> No.4994322

Less people buy 'em?

If you're from an english-speaking country you have no complaints, fucking english books are 50% off by default

>> No.4994323

because the companies can get away with it because people will still buy them

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4994347

>>4994320

>> No.4994354
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Do you buy your books new? And if your nearby library is stocked well, why buy books at all?

>> No.4994358

>>4994354
My local library has like 200 books, and literally no classics.

>> No.4994362

>>4994358
>buy kindle
>libgen.org
>????

>> No.4994371

>>4994320
i only buy my books at thrift shops and/or used books shops. they cost what you would spend on a starbucks coffee.

>> No.4994372

>>4994354
The library of my town (in France) cost more than $10,000,000 to build, and there's only five books of Victor Hugo there -- dirty paperbacks from years ago. If you want "rarer" authors like De Quincey, you won't find them at all... There is literally nothing interesting to read in this place. But the furniture is very nice.
>tl;dr: corruption in the first world prevents me from going to my local library

>> No.4994375

Status signaling. Reasons to read books the Google scanned cause they're out of copyright.

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>>4994320

>> No.4995248

>still buying books
>2014

>> No.4995254

They're worth it.

>> No.4995262

>>4994320
Only a guess, but maybe because...

In order to write them full time, authors need to make a living somehow. Given the fact, you can not make a living without money, selling expensive books, might be a way out of the conundrum.

Or maybe because...

Editors are insane in the brain, insane in the membrane.

>> No.4995613

>>4994320
Why are you so poor?