Hmm.. I wonder where they're taking they're projections from, since there could be a little bit of bias involved. If it's from a relatively short period which coincides with say, a lot of inflation, it'd only make sense that the second hand book market would increase, because books are a commodity that even the poorest people may have hanging about, some of which might actually sell rather well.

I know that around covid and a bit later I certainly took a lot of my books down to the second hand shop to see whether I could score some money for food and booze. I did too. Turns out Discworld novels have an extremely high turnover. Especially the English versions. He didn't care for GRRM or Douglas Adams that much, but Pratchett sells like hotcakes I gather. (I do live in a university city.)

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No wörries. Having been on the internet a while I'm rather used to people taking me as being "mad" when I write long comments in a very neutral tone. It's a feature of humanity. We can't help but to imagine a tone of voice to something we read (unless you're reading like a manual, and even then, you're gonna like read it just in a neutral tone in your head), and usually when it's anything that remotely disagrees with us, we assume a negative tone.

I do it all the time as well. It can be helped though. By, I assume, decades of meditation and dedication to a way of thinking and managing yourself. Or optionally, a midrange recreational dose of MDMA/LSD/psilocybin or other serotonergic substances. (The former is more permanent, the latter only lasting for like a few months or up to a year.)