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		alasdair_ on Aug 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The demise of the second-hand bookshop > Assuming ~600 man hours (your numbers) to digitize an entire used book store, at $15/hr cost for labor it would cost ~$900 to digitize a bookstore. $9,000

layoric on Aug 23, 2020 [–]

And at $0.50 a book would take 18000 sales to just recoup assuming 100% profit. Starting to understand why they don’t.

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