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>he buys his books from Amazon®

>> No.8953119
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>he buys his books from an Amazon® subsidiary

>> No.8953126
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>0.01$ price
>3.99 shipping

>> No.8953127

>>8953116
nice forced meme

>> No.8953130

>>8953116
>>8953119
>Get a hardcover in Very Good condition for .01 cents, plus 3.99 for shipping
>Would be at least 15 bucks retail
Are you guys Barnes and Noble shills or something?

>> No.8953132

>tfw free month of amazon prime
>buy all my books for the year and exploit the next day free delivery
>don't renew

;)

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>>8953116
>he cares about how people spend their money

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>>8953127

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>He doesnt live near several used book shops where you can buy leatherbound classics for £3

>> No.8953162

>>8953116
>doesn't have a library book store where paperbacks are 25 cents, hardcovers a buck, and have a strict policy of not accepting dilapidated dreck from donators.

I've found FUCKING GEMS at these bookstores, gents. I'll never buy new, ever.

>> No.8953169

>>8953116
Where else should one buy books?

>> No.8953171

>he does not shit book

>> No.8953176

>>8953162
I don't want the former property of poor people.

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>He buys his books

>> No.8953200

>>8953176
>t. bourgeoisie

>> No.8953204

>he buys books

>> No.8953206

Is this just a thinly veiled britcuck thread circlejerking to all of the online bookstores they have?

>> No.8953212

>>8953176
Hey, whatever satisfies your ego most.

>> No.8953231

>not torrenting ebooks

Wew

>> No.8953245

>implying I even read and don't just shit post

>> No.8953252

>buying books

Here's my system famalam

>be me
>be poorfag
>use Microsoft rewards to earn $5 Amazon cards
>buy a .01¢ + $3.99 shipping
>repeat every 21 days

>> No.8953267

>>8953231
>he steals things

>> No.8953271

>>8953116
I do it because they have all the rare books I can't find anywhere else

>> No.8953274

>>8953267
>copying a file, usually written by someone long dead, is theft

>> No.8953793

>>8953271
Have you tried looking at your local bookstore, friend?

>> No.8953801

>>8953274
>he justifies his stealing by an appeal to futility fallacy

>> No.8953820

>>8953116
>checking out the local library
>every book, old/rare or not, full price, no sales
>checking out on internet (amazon and other online libraries)
>half of the price
local libraries suck

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>He doesn't own a printing press and use his love of binding books by hand as a fun conversation on first dates

>> No.8953832

>>8953801
Copying isn't theft.

>> No.8953869

>>8953169
borrow from a library >
purchase from a library sale >
online book swapping >
local independent book stores >
local book stores >
independent online booksellers >
online booksellers that sell through marketplaces >
Multinational Online Warehouse-based Booksellers like Amazon which are harming your local book stores and local economy.

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>>8953801
>he copyrights information and charges people to do what should essentially be free of cost (learn)

>> No.8954544

>>8953824
I didn't know William Blake posted here

>> No.8954546

>>8953869
>online book swapping
Is there a way to do this without giving potentially skeevy strangers your address? Short of renting a PO box, I mean.

>> No.8954565

>be me
>want a book
>tell my assistant to buy the best edition of said book
>he does it
>don't care about how much it costs or where i got it from

feels good to be a patrician

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>>8953116
>not wanting your books flown to you in 10 minutes via drones from amazon air blimps

>> No.8954882

>>8953130
>.01 cents
>.0001 dollars
What an incredible value

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>>8953130

Why is the price so low?

>> No.8954895

>>8954886
I looked this up earlier. Amazon pays them a fixed amount for shipping so they ship cheap and pocket the rest. Or something along those lines.

>> No.8954913

>>8954895

That's clever.

>> No.8954924

>0.79 € + 3 shipping
>live in Poland so you have to wait eternity for the books to arrive
>book doesn't arrive
>report missing package and get your money back
>few days later receive a package

I don't know what to do lit, should I exploit the big company and resist capitalism read be a thief?

>> No.8954935

>>8953116
>he buys his books

>> No.8954962

Sorry test

>> No.8955338

>He doesn't have Prime and pay a literal penny for ownership of all his books

>> No.8955385

>>8953793
Of course.

>> No.8955532

>>8954565
yeah emphasis on ass

>> No.8955622

>>8954924
If you don't give it back you're a thief, whatever you tell yourself about capitalism.