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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
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Subject: Re: Let's try to roll back the SF price increase rip-off!
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Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 14:15:17 EDT
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Of course, there are some of us around that bought books in the 50's or
so that believe that 35 cents is an elegant sufficiency for a paperback
book price...

I seem to find plenty to read at the library, by buying books for a few
cents each at yard sales and book fairs & trading those in at used book
stores to get specific items I want, and by getting stuff from the
paperback-exchange rack here at work. (Every workplace ought to have one
of those latter -- even if your organization's library isn't interested,
or you work at a place with no library, you can start one yourself. Just
bring in a dozen books and stack them somewhere with a sign saying "Take
some -- leave some" or the like. There are actually some fools out there
that *throw away* books after reading them! If it is easy enough, those
people will participate too, and bring in stock for exchange.)

Anyway, if more people were like me, and didn't pay the insane prices
that are asked these days for paperbacks, the price levels would stay
down, and the publishers would be forced to cut costs to keep them
there. Anybody who pays list price for books is part of the problem, not
part of the solution...

Will