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Originally Posted by Section8
There is one characteristic of used pbooks that could be applied to "used" ebooks - you have to wait for it, but can get it at a discount.
If it's important to buy your favorite author's new novel the day it's released, you have to pay a premium price - new hardback or "new" ebook. If you're willing to wait, you can pay less - paperback/used pbook/"used" ebook.
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That doesn't really work for ebooks though. Sure people will buy popular texts the day the are uploaded, but if they are read that same day by a large majority of the purchasers and resold the market wold quickly be saturated with used copies.
Perhaps ebooks should be rented instead...