To: WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 23:37:33 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] aging books, aging dollars
From: ronkean at juno.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 18:19:51 -0500 Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net> writes:

> >  At 3/5/2006 02:16 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> >
> > > I bought a 1912 Tom Swift hardback for $12.
> >

> $12 is a lot for a book which originally sold for less than a dollar
> and was published in mass quantities.  If you want more of them, Keith,

> I have several I'd be happy to sell you for that price.
>

The CPI today is about twenty times the level of 1912, so Keith may
actually have paid just about the same as the original price, corrected
for inflation.  A local used bookstore a few years back was charging a
default price of half the cover price for pulp paperbacks, which had the
effect of automatically discounting the paperbacks for age.

Ron Kean

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