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Originally Posted by Giggleton
What to do with all those used copies of Harry Potter? To get back to the OP...
The big six would have us burn them.
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i don't think thats such a crazy notion. they've proven time and again, whether its ebooks, movies or video games, that they want us to buy and rebuy the same material over and over again. the video game industry, for example, is on an absolute crusade to drive stores like gamestop under. then theres things things like drm, they make no money if you 'own' your books. they want you to buy it and keep buying it.
they want control of the material every second of its existence so if they wanted us to burn our used paperbacks it wouldn't exactly shock me. if they could get away with it, every material goods supplier on earth would kill off the secondary market.