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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Next you're going to tell me that college students don't feel guilty for buying secondhand textbooks.
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Yes, I am going to tell you that. Some like to have clean new copies. Some with mild mental issues may feel ashamed of not having the perfect books richer students do. That's hardly guilt.
When you buy used, you push up the price of used books, which gives publishers room to raise the price of new books. Are you saying that they feel guilty about that? And this in the same generation in which music darknet use is so popular?
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Anyone who thinks that books are entirely a niche good is getting stats from people who read less than five books a year. The rest of us read what's available in our budget.
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I read maybe 25-60 books a year, and what I read in terms of books has nothing to do with budget. Budget does affect form factor and buy vs. library vs. interlibrary loan. Also, budget affects my periodical reading.