I am confused about what subset of books you are referring to. Many expensive books, in the range you mentioned, are collectible editions of books still in print.

There was a big battle over whether Amazon would sell a book about transgender children. For a while, it was banned for a bit but then the company changed its mind.

https://www.intomore.com/culture/amazon-reverses-ban-abigail...

not those ones

Bookfinder is owned by Amazon.

It took some clicking but in its footer is "BookFinder.com is an independent subsidiary of AbeBooks" and then https://www.abebooks.com/about/#:~:text=we're%20a%20subsidia...

Now I'm sad. It reminds me of this chart that shows that 10 companies own a huge swath of the major brands. https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/11dvx...

Why did you do that? Did you think it was real?

For laughs

Now they have a recording of you saying yes that can used to justify signing you up for services that you never intended to.

That "yes" for other services cam be contested easily, though, without ever paying anything. It is still stress I would avoid.

Could also be used to generate his voice and scam his relatives.

It took me way too long to realize this was a joke.

It's HN so you can't be entirely sure.

He has spent 10 years in federal prison. He was never convicted of any murder for hire scheme.

That’s very creepy

I think this is correct. I read somewhere the prompt:

Can you [do something]

Is inferior to:

[do something]