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Originally Posted by Lemurion
I don't know where you're buying second hand books - but most used bookstores I go to charge at least $4 or so for a used paperback.
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Perhaps it's different in the US. My local charity shops do 4 books for a quid or 30p each. They do have more expensive ones too though.
Also every year the local village hall throws open its doors and everyone turns up with their read/no longer wanted books and anyone can take as many books as they like for free. I turned up with around 50 last year - and took away about that many (new - they would have cost me around 500 quid).
OK I'm kinda willing to believe that the price of a book doesn't include distribution costs (I guess distributors must do it out of the goodness of their hearts) but that doesn't explain why ebooks are sometimes more expensive than their realworld counterparts.