Books are the Best Products

 

Books have always been romanticized by people. A man's best friend, a whole new world, a portal to a magical land. So on and So forth. Here, we'll talk about books in a way they are seldom talked about, like products you should invest in. In my not-so-humble opinion, Books are the best products.

Low-cost single time purchase

Books are one of the cheapest and most accessible sources of information available to mankind. Unlike Netflix, Amazon Prime, or even our Internet Service Provider, which require you to pay-to-use very frequently, Books are a one-time purchase deal. Now, I know that books seemingly contain a fraction of the information that the Internet does. But, books win hands down in accessibility to reliable information. Google is not what it used to be 10 years ago. It was once a magical search engine. Now, it is stale as an army of SEO clerks try their best to not give us the most relevant content. Google no longer has all the answers. Books do.

No quality depreciation

Readers have various rules regarding their books. From no earmarked pages to always opening the books only up to a specific angle, reading rules are crazy. And kinda unnecessary if you ask me. Unless you deliberately burn or drown your books, nothing else is truly going to make them unreadable. They may wear down and turn yellow with rustic edges, but books survive. Most people still keep inherited books from their grandfathers, but how many us are actually using the same phone we did 5 years ago?

#Atmanirbhar

Books are the most self-sustaining products ever. Reading books only requires two things:

1. The Book
2. Light (which is plentily available for free). Atleast for now.

Enough Said.

P.S. I know you need to be able to read, but literacy is a pre-requisite for almost all information products.

Public and Personalized

Books do this magical thing where they are the same for everyone to read. Yet everyone reads them differently. Reading a book is a very uniquely personal experience. A book is not one concrete thing that exists in isolation. It is partly constructed by the reader, every time they read it, influenced by their own thoughts and beliefs and life experiences. The author only does half of the work; the reader does the rest. And that resulting reading experience belongs to the reader alone.

Unbeatable ROI

According to Investopedia, ROI tries to directly measure the amount of return on a particular investment, relative to the investment’s cost. For a product with an average price of around 500 rupees, Books give uncharacteristically high-returns. You can earn much more than the price you paid for the book, by simply writing an online review for it.

Now that I have helped you realize how good books are as products, you are almost obligated to buy one for me the next time you are buying one for yourself.