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Originally Posted by Andy_T
if you buy a paper book, you can put it on the shelf, give it so somebody else to read, or sell it on after you have read it.
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it is still my feeling that Amazon is making much more money on me [...] when I buy an ebook instead of a pbook. Weird, isn't it?
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It's not weird, although I'd not say it's
much more money. The shrinking of the re-sale market is a lamentable aspect of the rise of e-books. I've bought some real gems through abebooks. As the years go on, second-hand inventory will decrease. The downward pressure it exerts on new-book prices will also decrease.