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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
The market for used books is vast compared to the market for new books.
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And likely always will be. A used bookseller often pays very little for the books they sell (Half Price books here pays around $0.10 cents for a book they'll sell for $4 in my experience) so don't have a ton tied up in per book inventory costs. I don't see a publisher with all the associated production and distrobution costs being able to compete with that. I doubt they can totally make it up on volume if they were to drop their stuff down to used prices.