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Originally Posted by HamsterRage
This thread feels a little trollish to but it does point out a fundamental difference with the ebook model: that you can't really resell an ebook.
To me, that just adds fuel to the idea that an ebook should be way, way cheaper than a physical book. Like maybe 20% of the price of a paper book.
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Which is why they should be priced at the same level that a used paperback would be. Not 10p from a jumble sale, but the price level set by Ebay, Amazon, Abe, etc. Which by an odd coincidence, is a little bit under £3.
That is what it will take for ebooks to go mass market, but I don't think we will get that price level until people can buy ebook readers in Tesco for £30 or so.
At the moment, people with ebook readers are the sort of people who had mp3 players in 1997.