Re:Every day at my job I helped people just barely survive
by DanBC on Saturday February 18, 2012 @11:15PM
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> Next time you think of buying a book, seriously check out your local library system.
I agree, but there are something like 250,000[1] books published each year.
At just $5[2] per book that's $1,250,000 just to buy each year's worth of books, never mind the staff to do the buying and unpacking and cataloguing and stocking and lending etc etc.
I agree, but there are something like 250,000[1] books published each year.
At just $5[2] per book that's $1,250,000 just to buy each year's worth of books, never mind the staff to do the buying and unpacking and cataloguing and stocking and lending etc etc.
[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_published_per_country_per...) (but go careful because who knows where the wikipedia numbers come from)
[2] A ridiculously low figure. Here's some UK data; not sure where it comes from. (http://www.holtjackson.co.uk/cgi-perl/web_avg_book_price.pl)