1 Try living in Australia.  Looking for a book, Amazon shows that it's available and only costs $2.49.  Click on the link and it either shows up at $17.99 or doesn't show up at all.

It's high time we dragged the publishing companies kicking and screaming into the 19th century.

2 Heck, most of my favorite juvenile SF novels basically aren't available in ANY  form anymore. They were published in paperback on cheap, high acid paper, and have fallen into dust unless somebody somewhere carried out a very expensive archival preservation technique on a copy. Not everybody was a Heinlein, famous enough to have his works preserved.

And most of my 4k+ SF library, collected over a lifetime, got scattered when I moved down to SC. I'll probably never read most of those titles again. If it were even possible, it would take tens of thousands of dollars to reassemble that collection. I don't even still have the catalog I constructed on R base.

It's very depressing to realize that the culture of my youth isn't just gone, The literary part of it is dust, never to be seen again.

3 Try living in Australia...

...where books are expensive and everything is trying to kill you!