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OK, OK, I am a thief. Sounds romantic. Somebody has to leave on a theft to bring the justice to the world. At least I am doing something. And you are only having all those righteous ideas, which is a very nice and comfortable position. Or they are robbing us? And they are stronger? Let be on...

Ying Yang, Ying Yang. OK, I am stealing. And you are passively watching as we all here got robbed and doing nothig! Washing your hands?:eek:

This is exactly what I say. Prices CAN BE cheaper. If some " crappy punk bands" can live from their shows and CDs (and they can), others can too. Besides it seems that they only loose from holding prices high. Most of teenages, who are probably the greatest consumors for all that pop-music...

Clearly NOT. Cars are different. And there is a range of prices for cars. One can buy CHEAP cars. But CDs, DVDs and books? There is not enough competition (between the publishers or whom? Who is responsible here for the prices???) I just say, those high prices are the result of some kind of...

First of all, those who work hard and get hardly published, those who are "new", their books will be in general cheap. (I do not mean Harry Potter). And those beginning bands and musicians, they have cheap CDs if at all. I frequently go to see young Punk bands, young Jazz musicians and...

Why to buy when you can download? :p If you'll like it really really hard, you can then go and buy.

Well, I believe that when everybody will download music from internet and NOT buying those expensive CDs, the price will get lower. They will have to get rid of those CDs somehow. And generally, I would prefer to buy them then. Sound sometimes is better with the real CD (but even this is not...

Amazon also annoyes me but for the other reason. They are monopolists!!!! I HATE THAT:mad: I was looking for a certain book half a year ago. Amazon did not have it (time delivery was something rediculous like half-a-year) . So I tried to search for other online book stores. Every bookstore had...

I wonder where goes most of the money that one pays per book. It does not seem to me that the author gets most of it. May be the publisher?

Except that normally nobody wants to wait untill they are ripe. I want to have a book the very moment that I want to have it, and not the next year or even next 100 years. It is nice when I can borrow a book from my friend, but when nobody have it, than you just buy for whatever price they hold...

I do not know. You are right that "as long as people are willing to pay the exisiting price why change it?" But yet, the previous year I found the "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ " by Jose Saramago which price was three-times reduced! I bought two books to two of my friends who have not...

I hate shopping. Being yet a student, I feel so miserable when I go to buy a CD or a book for myself. The calculations are always very strict, and at the end I normally finish up asking my parents or friends to bring me a certain CD or a book for my birthday or other closest holiday. This...

Did anybody read the new Asterix? There have not been any new ones for 4 years already, and I wonder if this one is as good as the others :confused: Official Asterix site: http://www.asterix.tm.fr/

I agree. Good said.

Well, it sounds quite not meaningful to me. What does matter, is the final product. a grown-up who reads or who does not. I do not know many grown-ups who "suddenly" started to read. Either one reads as a kid and continues, or not. And what bad about comics? It is reading! My parents never...

Thanx. I see that you are still arguing here. In Europe it is a day-time, so I could not join you ... Working:( Anyways I do not see that you got somewhere meanwhile. I still do not agree that boys do not read. Kids that I know (boys) spending their time surfing the internet, and do not tell...

Currently I started to learn german. I desided to buy books in german - those that I've read as a child, and that probably influenced a lot the way I speak my own mother language. The problem was that with Astrid Lindgren "Karlsson" series I was bursting into laughter even without...

Sorry, I do not agree that boys read less. Depends where you are doing your statistics. I have majored in physics, so everybody around me (70%) were men, around 50% of those were reading. If you are looking in literatute department of university, probaly 70% will be women, and you will think...

"My history professor suddenly mentioned this book in a lecture today." It is not surprizing. It rather covers political and cultural life in Germany before the first-world-war, and untill Nazis time. Normally I am getting bored of everything which is not science fiction, but German histrory...

Thanx Thanx a lt. I'll try that.