*ron howard voice* it was, in fact, not at all commonhttps://twitter.com/BPD_MN/status/1411040144426209281 …
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long ago I worked at a used and antiquarian bookstore in downtown Boston, and there were a number of unhoused people in the area who would come in every so often with a sack of dingy paperbacks. staff would make a show of appraising them, and give them IIRC $0.50 or $1 each.
(I was too low-level an employee to be involved in that process, I just stocked shelves and such.) I doubt we ever sold many, maybe any, of those books, they'd circulate to the clearance racks and eventually to the dumpster.
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but there was no call to be cruel to those people, who clearly didn't have many ways to get any money for food. so that's what the "it's common to sell them for a profit" makes me think of.
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