#i dont know why im thinking about this

how does the bookshop guy (the only valid guy in the town other than Maurice) in Beauty and the Beast stay in business? because it seems like the only person who reads in the town is Belle (since everyone else looks down on her for it), and she mentions borrowing books, and it’s not a library because they call it the book shop, and he just gives her her favourite book for free. and they use money in town, because earlier in the song, a man mentions something being too expensive. so where does he get the money to afford to live?