[P-Marlowe]

Well, my copy of Walter Lord's Night to Remember cost fifty cents and was printed in 1974, and that's what I'm going on.

Your book was written in 1955. Thus it was not a new book. It was in the realm of a classic. You can still get reprints of classics in paperback for about $3.50. New paperbacks in 1974 were usually well above $1.00 each.

Additionally your 1974 book is about 200 pages and the average book today is well over 350 pages.

[JoeSchem]

A Night to Remember sold for $.50 then, and sells for $7 now. I am comparing apples to apples. You also seem to think that page count linearly correlates with cost, but it doesn't.