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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
As both copies and used-book transfer get easier, publishers (including indie authors) will need to come up with new business models, because the main profitability of the current one is based on a scarcity that no longer works the way it used to. If getting a half-list-price copy is as easy as putting the title in a search engine, whether that copy is digital or print, selling full-price copies is going to be a lot more difficult.
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The price might need to fluctuate, but that would lead to other problems. I still think the new business model is a donation based system that allows for ease of access to all books, well maybe not all but most. Some will continue to restrict their texts behind a paywall.
Thinking in terms of buying and selling might lead you to conclude in such things as the "destruction of the ebook industry" But perhaps ebooks do not need an industry, perhaps ebooks are merely an extension of the network, wanting to be shared.
If ebooks are not sold, they cannot be resold.