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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
I'm not sure I agree either. I'm a poverty lawyer, so all my clients are below the poverty line. A great deal of them would never read a book on their phones and most don't own computers. But they might buy something super cheap in the grocery or big box store. Most of their kids don't have their own phones, so MMPB would have been one of the only options they could have afforded. 12.5% of the population in my state lives at or below the poverty line and I am more sad for them than anyone in the loss of the MMPB.
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In the UK there are free public libraries everywhere for everyone.
I can see that in a place with widespread poverty and no public libraries there could still be a place for cheap paperbacks. But it looks like it'll be second-hand ones only in a few years.