A few years ago in the UK every bookstore sold 60p books, which were usually interesting excerpts of longer novels and cookery books. We have maybe 20 to 30 of them in various rooms in the house, I noticed them tidying up today. Now you can't buy them anywhere, maybe they got too expensive to make, or the public got bored of them. On a related note, you can get copyright free books from Project Gutenberg amongst others.
Building Social Web Applications by Gavin Bell.
yes, but they don't look as neat on yer shelves as yer proper-sized paperbacks.
this'll be the librarian on speed then ;)