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by: Lynn McGuire - Mon, 17 May 2021 06:12 UTC

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by: J. Clarke - Mon, 17 May 2021 10:32 UTC

On Mon, 17 May 2021 01:12:21 -0500, Lynn McGuire
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>Am I the only person noticing that the price of used dead tree books
>goes way up when the new books run out ? For instance:
> https://www.amazon.com/Exo-Jumper-Novel-Steven-Gould/dp/0765336545/

Checking abebooks the price is not quite so high but the cheapest
paper copy I see is 15.21 and shipping (the audiobook is cheaper).

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by: Jack Bohn - Mon, 17 May 2021 13:22 UTC

Lynn McGuire wrote:
> Am I the only person noticing that the price of used dead tree books
> goes way up when the new books run out ? For instance:
> https://www.amazon.com/Exo-Jumper-Novel-Steven-Gould/dp/0765336545/

Is this a step closer to what economists call perfect information? Used to be, a store would only know an old book was in demand when a customer had purchased the last one off the clearance rack and two others came in to ask about it the same day. Now, anyone can see a seller elsewhere has priced the books at $31, with three remaining, and figuring the two in stock locally should also be worth a total of $93, price them at $46.50 each.

At a physical store, and taking potluck, my receipt says I paid $7.99 for the second SFBC volume of The Chronicles of the Lensmen, and $3 for a paperback, presumably at that price point they are considered fungible, but I'm using it as a bookmark in _Legion_ by Charles L. Grant; that book was $1.75 back in 1979, so, despite this being the only printing, the price increase has not kept up with inflation. (Leaving aside the fact that a buck and three-quarters was more dear to me back then than the equivalent today, and the question of whether one can today even find a book of only 224 pages.)

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-Jack

When we talk of tomorrow, the gods laugh.

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noticing that the price of used dead tree books goes way up when the	Lynn McGuire
Re: noticing that the price of used dead tree books goes way up when the new boo	J. Clarke
Re: noticing that the price of used dead tree books goes way up when	Jack Bohn