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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
I have them all in paperback, most purchased used, so I am waiting on the price to drop
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This is another phenomenon that publishers need to understand (and monetize) better. Consumers often buy something they already have.
(Hands up in the room anyone owning more than one ereader? it's ok ... we know who you are ... 
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The music industry knows this: it sells a single, an album, a reissue, a greatest hits, an anniversary edition "with original artwork", and then repeats the whole thing as it moves from LP to CD to mp3.
Publishers of content like the Bond series have a great opportunity with ebooks: repackage and resell. So, you change covers, you add new forwards, you make it a "series", you tie-in where possible to other trends (like movies or nostalgia --
Mad Men anyone? leverage that, Mr Bond!). And then price it to be accessible and an impulse buy.
Instead, alas, publishers seem to be, inscrutably, "Dr No".