The biggest reason for the price difference was because it was before the rise of Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), which made print-on-demand technology readily available. In the 90s, scammy vanity publishers overcharged authors, so many authors, rejected by big housebook publishers, wo...
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