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Old 11-19-2010, 03:19 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by mdmorrissey View Post
The revolution will begin when individuals can sell or lend their ebooks the way they can their paper books. I suspect this is purely a technology problem that will eventually be solved.
It would be very easy to do that, but then the publishers would be back in the position they are in with real books -- one buyer, several readers. The real money is in one buyer, one reader. If they priced them at second hand paperback prices (from Ebay/Amazon, not jumble sale prices), they would tap into an income stream that they are currently losing.
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