Thread: Can someone explain the publishers stinking-thinking to me
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Old 01-22-2012, 11:23 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by CJJ View Post
Thanks for the clarification. I can see some argument in paying more for the convenience of an ebook. But it doesn't make sense that I have less usage rights to the property I just bought than I would (at half the price) for the print book.

I'm surprised publishers haven't lobbied to outlaw used book stores. Of course if all publishing eventually becomes digital, the "legal" used book will be nothing but a fable recounted by Grandpa after a few glasses of wine.
Actually they have in a way... tried to get a law to force a payment from every secondhand book sale but (so far) the idea sank, seems it was a "little" unpopular and would have been near impossible to enforce...
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