So I wanted to buy a copy of the manifesto (I had just a pdf till now) I know it ain’t necessary but I’m building a library so it would’ve been nice, so anyway I went on the ebay and found this copy for cheap, just over 1 euro plus shipping.
On the front of the book, as clear as day, there was written “100 pages, 1000 Lire”
So I investigated
So there was this publishing house in the 90s that had this scheme “100 pages 1000 Lire” at that time 1000 Lire were worth about 60 euro cents today, sooo how did they make money? Its a normal paperback made of normal paper, its 100 pages and the necessary commodities would have probably costed more.
I can’t sleep till I find the truth
Edit: if there’s something to take from this deliry is that:
1)I got shafted because the book costed less in the 90s
- buy books local if you can, local used books can be real cheap, real story ive seen them as low as 35 cents for entire tomes, shipping can be a real hamper expecially when your government gifted your postal service to private oligarchs (but that’s a rant for another time comrades 😁)
ok so i calculated the purchasing power n it was about 76 cents, must have been really cheap paper, those were also the years in which our half-assed social democracy kinda died (a bit before tbh) so maybe yes, it was just cheap paper.
Edit: it was probably option number 4, they sold a looot of copies, maybe not of the manifesto but of other texts of that chain. Making like 10 Cents a copy but on millions of copies is still millions of euros
Interesting. I look forward to the day that books are cheap, libraries are everywhere and well stocked, and all digital media is freely shared without threat of litigation.