They're just folks like you and me, with a decently sized stack of books on their shelves at home. Most of the books, they'd be glad to keep, or glad to get rid of. So they put fifty bucks on every book. If they sell /one/, imagine: it'll be like hitting the lottery! And if they don't, well, they have lots of shelf space. They don't really wanna be in the bookselling business. They don't really like packing and shipping books. It's an experiment in human dimwittedness and desparation: will you pay fifty bucks for a six dollar book? Will anyone?
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Date: 2002-08-25 04:57 pm (UTC)They're just folks like you and me, with a decently sized stack of books on their shelves at home. Most of the books, they'd be glad to keep, or glad to get rid of. So they put fifty bucks on every book. If they sell /one/, imagine: it'll be like hitting the lottery! And if they don't, well, they have lots of shelf space. They don't really wanna be in the bookselling business. They don't really like packing and shipping books. It's an experiment in human dimwittedness and desparation: will you pay fifty bucks for a six dollar book? Will anyone?
I'd like to see the stats.
Lu