Anirvan Chatterjee follows up one attendee’s notes on a Book Expo America panel called “Toward Quantifying the Used Book Conundrum” with his thoughts on the attitude of some segments of the publishing industry toward the used book market:

“The words “Used Book Conundrum” remind me of historical terms like the “Chinese Question” or the “Jewish Question,” in the way that the concept is defined as being inherently problematic, so as to confirm the interests and prejudices of relatively powerful or entrenched interests.”