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Originally Posted by markbot
You still have libraries that the poor could use. Any tax is going to be disportionately negative for the poor but this doesn't mean we should throw out all taxes.
It is possible that the higher demand for ebooks would drive up the price on them. Also, in this new world ebooks are now transferable so there is a secondary market for ebooks. Ultimately, I think the secondary market would likely keep down the new ebook prices as the new ebooks would have to compete with the secondary market.
On one hand, the demand for new ebooks goes up because of the pbook tax but on the other hand the demand declines because of the secondary market.
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So the poor could use the libraries but those libraries would cost more?
And the fact any tax is going to be disportionately negative for the poor is an allowable disadvantage? Let them eat cake? Probably I am misreading your posts but you seem to be approaching this from a very self centered perspective.
You are also bizarrely fixated on pbooks wasting paper, while ignoring the many other ways that paper products are used. Transient media such as newspapers etc, mailed documents, packing of shipped merchandise, packaging of fast food or TV dinners..... The list is endless. Pbooks do not in general get used only once and disposed of.
I just do not perceive your arguments as echologically motivated or you would be addressing a wider area instead of concentrating on messing up the only way many people have to read their books.
Helen