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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
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.
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what for me may be throw away-content for you might be a precious gem.
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de gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum" so how to apprize?
a propos wearing out - I still posess some very "badly-produced pulp paperbacks" being decades old...
so much about the natural wearing out.