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Pourquoi les libraires ne cessent-ils de vouloir des préfaces, et pourquoi les lecteurs ont-ils cessé de les lire ?
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The question points to a mismatch between the people who sell books and the people who read them. Booksellers still ask for prefaces, while readers are presented as no longer interested in them. Its repeated “why” makes this gap sound puzzling and invites us to question the continuing demand for something supposedly ignored.
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