Buying out of print books ('orphans' in googlespeak) from book dealers has a great deal to be said for it but money is sometimes tight and many books are too rare to be affordable or even to be available. As a dealer I see the scheme opening up the market rather than harming it. New collectors, readers and book enthusiasts will be created by this bold 'Forever' project - especially among the under thirty crowd, who are now seldom seen in bookshops or at bookfairs; those born after the year of the Jubilee and Punk (1977) i.e. the post-literate generation. Sergey was four at the time but by the time he was 26 he had accumulated well over 15,000 real books...
Bogdanos Becomes Prop for Chinese Propaganda
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Attention-seeking "world culture cop" Matthew Bogdanos has allowed himself
and Alvin Bragg's Manhattan DA's office to become a prop for Chinese
propagan...
4 days ago
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