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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
This is simply not doable, as long as the majority of ereaders aren't connected... Besides, as soon as a book is on my PC, I disinfect it. Then where is your copy protection?
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Yep. Even if the majority of readers
become connected it's problematic.
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I completely agree with this... I buy a book because I like it. Not because somebody else might like it so I can sell it to him later on...
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Indeed. I have a fairly large number of used books, but I didn't buy them from the former owner. I bought them from used book stores. And for the most part, it's not how I discovered authors I like to read. Most of the used books I bought were by authors I already liked, and bought used copies of titles because they were out of print and used was the only way to get them.
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It reminds me of something that was said on a tv show about selling and buying houses. Somebody was thinking about not putting a bathtub in, even though she would have liked it herself, because it might drop the value of the house when she wanted to sell, after so many years... (at which time the bathroom would have been ready for a renovation anyway...) Or people buying a blue car, while they hate blue, simply because a blue car re-sells better...
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I overheard a conversation in a restaurant years back between a woman and her daughter. Mom was going on about the resale value of a prospective new home they were looking at being critical, as they would want to sell at a profit.
Aside from the assumption that real estate values would continue to ascend forever (not true in NYC these days...), there was the whole question of "If the house isn't a place you'll be happy living in, what makes you think you can turn around and sell it for enough more than you paid to make a profit? Buy a place you want to
live in. Worry about the resale value if and when you decide to sell and go elsewhere."
I shook my head, bit my tongue, and walked out.
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Dennis