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Originally Posted by Joykins
Yeah, but those hardbacks eventually ended up in remainder bins, used book stores, and book sales for $4.99 and the like. Or at the public library for the cost of your local property tax already paid. Will that ever happen to e-books?
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Nope. Digital goods are not the same as physical goods. There is no such thing as "used digital goods". There will never be a "we bought too many of these books so take them off our hands real cheap" for digital books.
On the other hand, digital books will never go "out of print". If you lose your ebook reader, you can still redownload all your books (from most any of the major ebook retailers).
You start getting older -- your ebook is now a "LARGE TYPE BOOK".
etc. etc.
ebooks will never be exactly the same as physical books -- and that's a good thing.
Lee