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Old 25th June 2008, 19:29
Franek Grabowski Franek Grabowski is offline
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Re: UNIT HISTORIES

And I disagree. There are two sides of the coin. The one is that the people are not buying books, but on the other hand they are terribly expensive, and in no proportion to royalties. This is just ridiculous, and makes books unavailable for most youngsters, who usually have the most time to spend on aviation history. Another point is that no one with any tiny piece of mind will spend hundreds of euro to get a single page of a book. In the old years the one could borrow a book in a library, but it is not working as good anymore. My recent experience was that borrowing a book unavailable in the library was more expensive than getting the book - I was lucky the book was worth only few bucks, but this is only to show that libraries could be much too expensive for ordinary readers. I do not mention costs, if the one is from a small village.
Just wanted to stir up!
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