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Originally Posted by HarryT
The eBook is a superior product for me personally. Resale value is irrelevant for me, since I never resell books, whereas physical space is a very important consideration, since I live in a small house. The books I buy have, on the whole, been well-formatted. If a book was poorly-formatted, I'd return it.
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Resale value is very relevant to me, because before I started buying ebooks, 80% of my book purchases were used books, usually around half cover price. Now, thanks to Apple and the Agency 6 publishers, I generally have to buy ebooks at full price, even though the paperbacks are routinely discounted 10% at my preferred book retailer. Worse yet, instead of lowering the price of mid-list ebooks (to compete with the used book market) when the paperback goes out of print , the publishers switch to on-demand trade paperbacks and raise the price of the ebook.