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8880238 No.8880238 [Reply] [Original]

Tfw ashamed I own a paperback instead of a hardcover

>> No.8880447

ashamed you own physical books instead of e-readers

>> No.8880449

>>8880447
No. I wouldn't read a book on an e-reader. It offends me to do so.

>> No.8880462

>>8880238
People who own hardcovers are the phonies. They don't actually care about reading nor learning. They just want to show off their collections.

>> No.8880466

>>8880462

This. Hardback book sizes are fucking obscene. They're more like ornaments.

>> No.8880775

>>8880238
Quit being a materialistic cunt

>> No.8880802

why the FUCK are hardcovers so much more expensive? I swear it's because of the "status" or some other bullshit and not because of the materials

>> No.8880905

>>8880775
What's wrong with materialism? are you just sad because you can't afford nice stuff? I'm laughing at you.

>> No.8881783

>>8880447
Kys faggot

>> No.8881790

>>8880238
>people who don't realize the phony guy is supposed to be Holden

>> No.8881799

>>8880905
>what's wrong with
literally read the OP
materialism gave the OP poster a bad feel

>> No.8881805

Hardcovers are so uncomfy

>> No.8883473

>>8880238
It's not worth anything after you read it anyways, unless you only open it up 90degrees.
Paperbacks are for actually reading the book

>> No.8883510

>>8880802
Partly for the added shipping weight/cost, but mainly because hardcovers are how publishers stay alive. If you want a new book and you buy a hc, you give them an extra $10-20 profit. In North America they milk this for a year usually (sometimes more: lately publishers have delayed the fuck out of paperback or mass market versions of huge sellers like Girl Who Fucked the Horny Dragon or A Dunce With Dragons in order to maximize profits before everyone switches to the MM that they only make pennies on. Personally I prefer PB for the smaller size/weight/cost, but a decent trade paperback: the mass market use shit paper and glue because most people will read them once. They're so worthless that bookstores don't even return them: they just rip off the front covers and return those for refunds. I've worked in a few bookstores. The industry utterly screws publishers: by tradition, they have to take returns on unsold books and so they can never trust their profits or sales.

>> No.8883518

>>8881790
Holden is a 6 foot, salt n pepper Chad. Not some loser dweeb.

>> No.8883537

>>8880449
What a retarded bitch.

>> No.8883583
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>> No.8883656

>>8880802
>I swear it's because of the "status" or some other bullshit and not because of the materials
According to my microeconomics book, hardcover is hardly more expensive that paperback to make and the price difference can be fully explained through price discrimination. So in a way, yes it's because of "status".

>> No.8883668

>>8883656
It's also an excuse to charge more early for a book. New books are first released in hardback. "It's more expensive not because it's new, but because it's hardback!" so no one balks and everyone just accepts that hardbacks cost more.

>> No.8883825

>>8883518
If you believe Holden was a Chad then I can't imagine how fucking beta you are.