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Old 03-10-2017, 09:31 AM   #3
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Another is the decline of hoarding. Where once consumers shopped based on what was available on the shelves and were trained to buy on sight anything that seemed interesting because it might not be available a month or even a week later, nowadays the expectation is that a book, once sighted, will be *easily* available indefinitely whether new, used, or in ebook form. So the pressure to pounce on sight is diminished.
Now the pressure is to pounce on a discounted bargain on sight.
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