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2005/7/5

As the Cheshire Cat would say

@ 07:22 PM (38 months, 19 days ago)

By coincidence, some else has had a rant about cheap books today which may go some way to providing an explanation for my dilemma on cheap books and profit (see here).  Having ordered a handful of 50p books, they asked for a quote for shipping. The quote came back at around £35.  For that price, I could send an entire pallet of paperbacks, that's around 1500, have way across the country. If that is a fair price for sending 9 paperbacks by Royal Mail a distance of some 100 miles, the books must be bound in lead! 

Still, doesn't quite explain the penny sellers on Amazon, where shipping costs are fixed (and at a reasonable level).  Curiousier and curiousier.

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