Interested!

Taking the Feb LSAT, thinking of moving to April- would like to join!

My thought process in choosing B went something like this: If the quality of books have declined in recent years, then book publishers wouldn't have as many books to choose that have "intrinsic merit". If there's less books out there with "intrinsic merit", of course you're going to have a decrease in the amount of those kinds of books being published.

Another way I came to B was that the author talks about what's going on NOWADAYS, so I automatically got rid of A, C, and D. Due to the time period (past, always) these choices refer to, none would explain the sudden change in the present. Then looking between B and E (as these refer to recent years, matching the premise!), E also wouldn't explain why there was a decrease in the amount of books with intrinsic merit being published. If anything, I thought that it strengthened the argument. If profits are decreasing, then book publishers would probably be more focused on money than quality of books (which is the conclusion of the argument).

Hope that helped!

No I definitely agree with you.. it would be more beneficial if he had taken more time to further explain why a certain answer choice is incorrect instead of saying "Who cares?!". Like that does nothing for me. I want to know why it doesn't matter..