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Originally Posted by maxiart
I sincerely hope you are joking, because otherwise you make not much sense at all. If you buy something, and only afterwards the author decides to raise the price, then its only too bad for the author.
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Oh? So are you in favor of first sale rights for digital goods? In the near future most of our non-food goods are going to be digital.
Please keep in mind that if the first sale doctrine applied to digital goods and those millions of Hocking novels which were bought for one dollar are now relisted for five, undercutting the new editions by three, those who purchase the used copies would be stealing bread from the publisher's mouths so to speak. Who really did have to put some work into the new editions. The new editions have undergone a bit more editing than the originals for sure. Which leads us to another question, were we sold a bad product in the first place and should we be able to ask for a refund? Obviously the work was unfinished...