Oh yeah, when the seven volume Rising Up, Rising Down came out the publisher was worried about the $1,100 (I think) price tag. The first pritning sold out almost immdiately. Since then, I’ve been seeing specialty books regularly selling for $600 and $700 in more and more homes of the wealthy along with a lot of normal priced books.
Want to make that herring a little more red. Do you realize how incredibly stupid it is to site some book nobody freaking heard of that’s some massive treatise on history as “proof” that books are a luxury?! You could buy hard covers of EVERY SINGLE Stephen King book, multiple copies even, for the price of that thing. Specialty books are NOT what anybody is talking about on this thread, and not even what YOU were talking about until you got desperate to have a point.
Let’s track Durasell in this thread. First he says books are a luxury. Then when called out on that being BS he says “no no I mean the time to read books”. Then it’s pointed out that that’s just as giant a stinking pile of horse manure and he goes off on some weird about stereotypes and in the process comes up with stereotypes that don’t actually exist (there simply is not a stereotype of the fit bookworm, maybe the Greeks might have had that stereotype but nobody since the birth of Christ has). Then he insists the luxury line came from some graphic artist and then spouts of on how book covers aren’t lurid anymore, which is really funny when you realize that Chip Kidd works with Frank Miller who’s the current reigning king of lurid books, on the cover and in the pages. And now you mention high priced specialty books, that are an incredibly minor niche in the book industry, as proof that books are a luxury? Dude you lost, you have no point, your statement was patently false and your attempts to defend have gone beyond strange to downright sophomoric and laughable. Walk away, you were wrong, and you know it.