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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1147155" data-attributes="member: 2205">Not having read all the responses, it looks like most people are missing the original point; it's not that monkius can't afford to buy the books, it's that prices are now to the point where he's not impulse buying them the way he used to.  That translates into less volume of material moved.  Is the increase in price enough to offset that to turn the same profit?  Probably not, because folks around here are saying that the price is a reflection of the cost of printing and distributing the book.  It's entirely possible that the market is slowly dying if it's not priced to move impulse buyers anymore.I totally agree with monkius on this issue; I'm not really price constrained anymore.  If I really want a $50 book, I could go to the store right now and buy it and it would only make a slight ripple in our monthly budget (as long as I didn't do that several times a month, mind you <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />) but I'm extremely unlikely to pick up a $50 book unless I absolutely was certain that I wanted it.  On the other hand, a $15-$20 book I might buy if it just caught my eye and I had a vague inkling that it might contain something I'd enjoy.</blockquote>