[gruez]

>No thanks. I'll just get it for a penny plus $3.99 shipping from amazon

There are books for a penny on Amazon?

[colechristensen]

The shipping charge covers whatever meager profit they get.

Something like the profitability of collecting cans for the deposit.

[breakingcups]

Plus any return doesn't refund the shipping charge.

[nitwit005]

Quite a lot of them. The publishers are quite upset at the price collapse of used books as people go grab those up.

[Scoundreller]

More like things have become so efficient, so that people donating their used books can have them go to a warehouse and get binned as having value and end up on the marketplace because there's $1+ worth of value after shipping.