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More importantly, bookstores have to turn a profit. Libraries don't.

• rayiner 10y ago
  Your average bookstore makes like 5% profit (if they're not losing money). Barnes and Noble could become a non-profit tomorrow and prices would go down so little you wouldn't notice. It's not profit versus non-profit that means the difference between "affordable" and "unaffordable." It's the ability to use tax dollars to offer a service for a fraction of what it costs.