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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
What I can't get my head around is why used books have gone up so much.
For an independent retailer I can almost understand as urban rents have skyrocketed. For charity shops, such as the Salvation Army or Value Village, why does an old tattered paperback which they have 20+ copies of sell for more than a pair of designer jeans or a microwave oven.
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I refuse to pay the $2.95 my local used bookstore charges for a beat-up 120 page sci-fi novel that has a cover price of $0.50.