[bruce511]

You can learn a lot of information from books. What upu can't get from a book is experience.

In this case you have a seller with no experience, and ultimately a buyer with no experience. In either situation a broker is valuable. In the case of both its an enormously important moderator who can keep both parties on track to a successful conclusion.

Book learning in such cases only gets you so far.

[macintux]

Also, LLMs not withstanding, you can’t pose questions to a book. Or even necessarily know when you should be asking a question you haven’t considered.