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Old 11-18-2010, 01:25 PM   #66
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Originally Posted by HamsterRage View Post
None of which changes the fact that, in relation to what your money is worth today, books are twice as expensive as they were in 1970. It matters not that they stuck the knife in slowly, we're all still bleeding the same.
As the material costs comprise only 10% of the total price, the real question would be to ask how many human work hours are spent for producing each book sold and how many hours you have to work to buy it.
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