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Originally Posted by jasonkchapman
Harlequin also seems to "get it". They're including both MobiPocket and Sony formats, and the e-books will be "priced slightly lower" than the paper versions.
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Ever been to a used book store? What's one of the largest sections? That's right - Romance Novels.
So today, person reads romance novels. Brings bag of read novels to used bookstore. Gets a couple bucks for them. But here's the important part: picks up another bag of used romance novels for pennies on the dollar. Reads them. Brings them back to the used book store. Repeat as needed.
Tomorrow, the proposal is:
Reader spend $300+ to buy an eBook reader.
Reader spends almost full price for the eBook version, then throws them away.
Reader cannot buy the eBooks used. Reader cannot trade them in.
Doesn't seem like Harlequin "gets" anything.