2. According to a survey by giant Alibaba in 2018, the market for the second hand book was booming last year as more Chinese tend to trade or exchange their usedbooks online.
3. Because it's all digital, it eliminates the used book market and eliminates any sharing, and because homework and tests are through an access code, it eliminates any ability to opt out.
4. But because it's all digital, it eliminates the used book market and eliminates any sharing, and because homework and tests are through an access code, it eliminates any ability to opt out.
16. Some 50 years after the author wrote Antiquities of Long Island the publisher found the manuscript among piles of other papers in a used book store.
在作者完成《长岛古风》大约50年之后,该书的出版商在一家旧书书店里,从一堆纸张中找到了书的手稿。
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17. Now and then one encounters in antique shops and used book stores boxes full of old postcards valued for their antiquity, their images and their stamps.
有时候,在古玩店或旧书店里看到装满了明信片的盒子,因为其历史价值,别致的图片或邮票而被珍藏。
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18. Imagine: no more usedbook stores; no more lending a book to your friend; no more borrowing one from the public library—no more “leaks” that might give someone a chance to read without paying.
19. The style used by the authors in this reference book (for lack of a better description) greatly increases the clarity of the book itself.
这本参考书的作者们采用的行文风格(因为缺乏更好的描述)使得它更加通俗易懂。
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20. It can be used to book a five-star hotel room.
它可以用来预订五星级酒店的房间。
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21. That's why I wrote this book, which is about how to reorganize the economy for the future when technology brings about destructive changes to what we used to consider high-income work.