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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Since most books need to be bought before reading, we are unable to accurately gauge whether or not the books are good.
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False. With most books you can download a sample. That should me more than enough to determine whether the book is good enough to buy. Every purchase you make involves a degree of risk. When you try a new dish at a restaurant, you might not like it. No rational person would insist on getting the meal for free and then only paying if you liked it. You don't know for certain if you will like a car before you buy it. That doesn't mean cars should be free. You do get to test drive a car, but that is very small sample. A book sample might be 10-20% of the book, while a test drive is a much smaller sample relative to how long you will use the car. When you buy a house, you only have a small "sample" a couple tours of it.
Books clearly provide more tools for determining if you will like it than do other products.