Comment by ButlerianJihad
7 days ago
Any bookseller worth their salt will ensure that a truly valuable book will not languish on their shelf for 1 minute longer than it takes to find a buyer willing to pay a fair price.
If AI-scanners are somehow bid-sniping bona fide collectors and wealthy aficionados, there may be cause for concern. But that is most certainly not happening here.
How do you have confidence in that? These buyers are reportedly exceptionally non price conscious.
Personally when seeking out rare books with few copies in existance and extremely scarce availability, I have often found listings that have lasted for quite some time. Not all rare books go to auction. You might be thinking only of some extreme of notable works and not a wider spectrum of desired but scarce publications that does indeed exist contrary to your confident assertion.
because that ended up being the case the last couple times this topic came up and now we've gotten wolf-cried
the part where the article avoids mentioning what book this was is a tell