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I wonder if second hand bookstores could set up to get a discount of some kind on commercial ebooks, as a reseller? Then they could take the used p-books in trade, and sell the e-book for a reduced price. I suppose they could give the expected resale value of the used book, less turnover, as a discount anyway. Then instead of paying the customer, they'd be issuing a coupon to their ebook store, effectively. It could be viable for a while, at least until (if) ebooks really do take off.
This way, for books that are commercially available as e-books, they'd be supporting them, and then they could do the scan/proof/swap deal as described above for books not yet available as commercial ebooks. Perhaps that would help convince publishers to get more of their inventory available as ebooks.
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