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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
@HR at this you can't generalize
(the difference between throw-away readers, and re-readers has been already mentioned elsewhere) A re-reader wouldn't even mind buying a book that's not worth being read again and again over the years if s/he knows that. These are the only books which matter for them. the stuff they happen to read once are wrong guessed choices.
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The easy solution to that is "throw-away, locked books that only you can read, and only for a limited time: $1. Books you can read forever or hand along to a friend: $10." Or similar pricing difference. Disposable single-use books cheap; permanent books cost more. If you liked the $1 version and want to keep it, you fork over a few more dollars for the permanent one.
Except the mainstream publishers are trying to insist that ebooks should wear out as fast as badly-produced pulp paperbacks, and be less sharable, for a higher price.