Determining how many pages are in a book: "pagination." Care to guess the number of pages in this book?

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Bookselling is a lot like soldiering. Each person's experience is a bit different. Just as every veteran's combat experience differs, each bookseller's adventures also vary. Why some soldiers survive, while others perished is an age-old question pondered by each generation, similar to why some booksellers make it and others don't.

Factors determining book values.

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Using "Catcher in the Rye" we examine: What gives a book value? How and why do books gain or lose value over time?