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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 3413306" data-attributes="member: 11760">Because people haven't read Gates of Fire, they don't read any more?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> Book prices aren't increasing every year. We don't have a federally mandated cost of living increase for the publishing industry. Some years it goes up -- sometimes quite a bit -- but for the most part, it plateaus for years and years.Librarians and booksellers would beg to differ. The interest in Harry Potter has brought huge  numbers of readers into book stores and reinvigorated children's literature, where a lot of the most interesting fiction being written today can now be found. Yes, there's a lot of other crap trying to be the next HP or Series of Unfortunate Events, but there's more activity in that section of the bookstore than there has been in decades.Then go look up the figures. I'm posting at work and don't have time to create a term paper to disprove the assertion that because people haven't read Gates of Fire, reading is dead.Do you need a $300 buy-in before you can spend money on any book? Do books, as a rule, cost $55 each? The numbers show that more books are being sold than videogames.The British publish an adult version of Harry Potter for folks to read on the tube if they're embarassed about being seen reading a kid's book. In America, we don't seem to have that problem and read it without shame.</blockquote>

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