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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Resell?
But for most of the people I know, "hand it along when you're done with it" is an expected part of any book purchase. It's understood that one is often never "done" with a book--it might be something you want to reread forever, or just have on the shelf, or share with one's own children--but if you're really done, it's considerably less selfish to give it to someone else than to treat it like empty cereal boxes to be pulped.
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This is how I always used all but my dearest dtb's (dead tree books). This kind of had attracted me to BookCrossing about 8 years back, I did it both the "leave a random book lying around where people can find it" way, AND the "local meetup" way where people brought books and others took them off their hands and they selected new ones to read.
I had a lot of sticker shock with the price of e-books at first too. My first exposure to e-books was to the classics at MR and PG, I didn't even bother to look to see how much e-books cost before buying my first reader because it didn't dawn on me that something the size of the files I downloaded from PG would be over $15.
I do notice a few independent authors (John Locke, J.A. Konrath, etc) who price their e-books VERY accessibly (like $1-$2) tend to make a lot of money at it. It seems to make sense to price non-physical property lower (although I am not suggesting everyone do the one dollar thing) since there's no on-going product costs. After the costs of production have been received, the rest is profit. I know some people who write knitting patterns that way. They charge low, more people will buy, and boom, before they know it they've earned a lot of money without having to peddle anything extra. (depending on the pattern's popularity and if the pattern is written well).