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Re:The demise of the second-hand bookshop by alasdair_ on Sunday August 23, 2020 @04:32PM (#24255057)
> Assuming ~600 man hours (your numbers) to digitize an entire used book store, at $15/hr cost for labor it would cost ~$900 to digitize a bookstore.

$9,000

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Re:The demise of the second-hand bookshop by layoric on Sunday August 23, 2020 @06:39PM (#24255896)
And at $0.50 a book would take 18000 sales to just recoup assuming 100% profit. Starting to understand why they don’t.
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