"weary flake" wrote in message
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Low prices aren't caused by closing of bookstores but the
opposite, by reducing competition: it is trivial to find a
used unloved book in a bookstore cheaper than on the internet.
The internet means I buy books that I wouldn't have bought
before because I didn't know they existed or were available.

I never claimed that low prices are caused by closing bookstores.
I stated the opposite: that brick and mortar bookstores are closing because of
low prices on the internet.