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Originally Posted by leebase
Not so for ebooks. Every copy of an ebook is the same. There is no declining quality. There is no extra hassle. There's basically no incentive to buy a new ebook verses a pirated ebook in terms of the quality of the book (talking about cracked versions, not scans).
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There's also the fact that if you sell a used pbook, you no longer have it in your possession. With pirating of ebooks, you can sell multiple copies and still have the original one.
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Well, yes, and if everyone bought used cars, auto makers would have no incentive to make new cars. However, the chances of everyone buying used cars are zero, just as the chances of everyone reading used books is zero. In the real world, the question is not what would happen if the used market share was 100 percent (bad for authors but impossible), but rather what would happen if the used market was just a little bigger that today (arguably good for authors).
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This was analysed a few years ago, and the conclusion drawn was that used books help rather than hinder the sale of new ones.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/te...erland&emc=rss