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  • If your book was highly elastic, than a series of small price drops would have been better for the profit maximizing book-seller, as they would have been able to sell more books at higher prices, since there would be enough people at each price drop to make it worthwhile.

    Why Do Book-Sellers Discount Popular Books?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • "People used to take their old books to a book-seller, but now they're more sophisticated and put them on sale at auctions," she said.

    Elizabeth S. Niemyer, Library Acquisitions Specialist Post 2010

  • A Chinese book-seller got 20 cents commission on each copy.

    Letter from John Watson to Young John AllenSeptember 27, 1883 2008

  • Christian book-seller arrested for raping his two sons by on

    01/11/2006 2006

  • Christian book-seller arrested for raping his two ...

    01/11/2006 2006

  • Finally, when I was having lunch with a pal, and he mentioned how eager he was to grab a copy of the same book, I decided it was time to get my fat ass in gear and head to my local book-seller.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Victor Gischler 2007

  • One of these lines then extended from Paris to Beirut, where an old Francophone book-seller with a pirated French copy began translating Neruda into Arabic.

    justinker Diary Entry justinker 2007

  • Rebecca HallBookish MoodNo online book-seller can compete with these classic independent bookshops for ambience: London's famed Daunt Books specializes in travel guides and world classics, nestled on oak shelves (dauntbooks. co.uk).

    The Good Life 2007

  • Finally, when I was having lunch with a pal, and he mentioned how eager he was to grab a copy of the same book, I decided it was time to get my fat ass in gear and head to my local book-seller.

    I always catch onto things late Victor Gischler 2007

  • Never were two men so well suited to each other as that book-seller and I.

    Armadale 2003

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