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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Uh huh. So the reason why people buy paper books is so they can resell them when done reading. Right.
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Not necessarily. But part of the value of the book is that when you are done reading it, you can do more with it than just throw it away.
That's especially true when the book is a nice hardcover - which is what eBooks are priced at today.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
You're making a couple of questionable assumptions, one of which appears to be that everyone else shares your motivations and viewpoints. That's almost never true, regardless of what values of "you", "motivations", and "viewpoints" are substituted.
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So you would rather pay $15 for a DRMed eBook that can only be read for a short time and cannot be resold/given away, then pay $10 for a paper book that be read for a long time and can be resold/given away?
The only thing that I assume is that intelligent people want to get the best value for their money.
Getting back on the topic:
My point was that there seems to be quite a market in trading used romance novels. Moving to DRMed eBook versions of these seems to be a good idea for the publisher - but a bad idea for the reader.