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Originally Posted by rkomar
Used book shops used to be plentiful around my neighbourhood, but recently they've been dying like flies. As there are fewer places to take used books, more and more people will just toss them into the recycling bin rather than put them back into circulation. The change seems to be happening more quickly than I would have hoped for.
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Right. That's the result of the decline of used book DEMAND, not availability. Fewer people are reading paper books period.
I imagine the online used book sites also affect used book stores just like they did for the likes of Borders books