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I guess the idea is that you're giving money to the previous purchaser of the book, who gave money to the publisher (somewhere back in history), so you're sort of splitting the payment to the author. And paper books do limit the spread of copies.
I'd like to see Amazon make a bigger push to get authors to have their own Amazon shops so they can get paid for used copies of their books, personally. I set up a shop for Steven Brust, but I think it would be cool if Amazon would automatically include that shop link on all his books.
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