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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Why would anyone want to pay a hundred dollars for a limp stuffed animal? Let alone get into a physical fight over one at a store? It makes no sense, but you just have to remember the Beanie Baby craze for a perfect demonstration of the power of artificial scarcity.
(admittedly there's a small Beanie varanid sitting on my desk right now, and it used to be on top of this display before I bought a flatscreen ... but I had to: it is obviously a monitor lizard!)
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Beanie Babies are different. They are physical objects. You can collect them, show them off, play with them (not that I think all that is worth what people pay for them). Ebooks are really very bare-bones, all there is is the actual information, ust the words inside the book, so one ebook should in theory be the same as the next, unless there are special limited edition footnotes or something. I just can't imagine anyone finding it worth the money. People who are interested more in the physical aspect of owning a limited edition book tend to buy real books, not ebooks.