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Originally Posted by xg4bx
not to be flippant but how many people actually resell their paperbacks?
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Resell? Not many. Give away to friends/acquaintances/leave at the laundromat for someone else to read? Quite a few.
There's a difference between "I want to make back some of the money I spent on this," which is going to be a limited and rare impulse, and "now that I'm done with this, I don't want it to just go to waste," which is much more common, and strongly encouraged in communities where resources are limited.
And it's a big part of how books have always worked--I don't know anyone who became an avid reader by reading nothing but new books bought full-price. I'm sure there are some people who did; some people come from wealthy enough backgrounds that kids are encouraged to buy books rather than share them with friends. But for most of the people I know, "hand it along when you're done with it" is an expected part of any book purchase. It's understood that one is often never "done" with a book--it might be something you want to reread forever, or just have on the shelf, or share with one's own children--but if you're really done, it's considerably less selfish to give it to someone else than to treat it like empty cereal boxes to be pulped.