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Old 04-19-2016, 12:49 PM   #103
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Originally Posted by Lemurion View Post
The calculations are interesting. I just spent some quality time with an inflation calculator myself. In general, the price increases seem to have outpaced inflation during the 80's, but have stayed below it since about 1990. The only catch is that the 80's bump was so significant that despite 25 years of lower than inflation price increases, paperback prices have still outpaced inflation overall.
I did that too, that bump in the 1980s was huge! If they had kept going up at that rate, they'd probably cost $30 for a paperback now.
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