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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Unless your local bookshop sells only used books, you are buying them from a major corporation with a few layers of middleman involved. (Technically, that's true even if they're used, but for used books, you're not paying the major corporation. When you buy new, you're giving money to the publisher.)
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And those corporations rely on sub-contracted warehouses using minimum wage labor as one of their many tax avoidance strategies. Publishers? They have their own catalog of tricks for tax avoidance like... swiss subsidiaries...
No money-grubbing multinational is any saintlier than another--the main difference is in how they treat the paying customer.