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Old 09-01-2010, 05:28 AM   #98
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Originally Posted by Strolls View Post
Except that if you buy a book secondhand, the author got paid for it when it was originally sold.

It doesn't matter that the author doesn't get paid directly when you buy a book secondhand. You pay the author indirectly with a secondhand book purchase, and in doing so - rather than pirating the book - you are respecting the author's copyright and supporting the author's right to publish the book.
You do not pay anything indirectly if you buy the book in a place were the books they sell have been donated. I also think that the percentage of books ending up in the second hand market is pretty low. If this percentage was near 100% I do not think that publishers would accept it. They accept second hand selling now because it is not so big and it give some advantage for the publishers by making a book more well known.
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