> The books were expensive and certain ones could always be easily flipped online. This finished the destruction of the technical books sections of Half Price

> The books were expensive and certain ones could always be easily flipped online. This finished the destruction of the technical books sections of Half Price Books. The first half of the destruction was online shopping. No longer could you find an entire technical library hitting the store because someone just died and their family dumped everything to Half Price. The most valuable books got skimmed off immediately and never made it to the shelves anymore. However, for a while the "standard" kind of technical books still hit the shelves so you could snag them at decent prices. However, shoplifting became sufficiently rampant that Half Price seems to have even removed those. Now, you can only get those books online, and the only books remaining on the shelves have the quality that results from them having effectively have no resale value at all.