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Originally Posted by twowheels
It seems that Amazon (and others) could easily allow us to put the book up for resale. I could finish reading the book, choose to resell it on their website. It'd go into a pool of available copies and become unavailable to me. Let's assume that the new book cost $12, so the used sells for $6. Once somebody buys it I get a cut (say $2) the publisher gets a cut (another $2) and Amazon gets a cut (yet another $2). The used copy sold for half price, yet everybody got some money.
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So everybody except for the person who wrote the book gets a cut?