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Food Friday: Why Do We Buy Cookbooks?

Is there a future for the book-as-object?

I blogged earlier about The Knockoff Economy, and today the authors are talking about cookbooks. You can't copyright a recipe--so why do cookbooks sell so well?

A number of you provided explanations that we think comprise a major part of the answer.

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