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Originally Posted by HarryT
But those aesthetics matter to a great many people. I have dozens of second-hand books for sale on Amazon, and they sometimes take months to sell, despite being much cheaper than the new book. I conclude from this that the majority of the book-buying (or the Amazon book-buying, at least) customers prefer to spend the extra for the new book. That effect would not exist for ebooks; there would be no reason to prefer a new book to a second-hand one, because the two would be indistinguishable from one another.
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Yeah, you have a good point. eBooks don't get "worn," I guess. I wonder how long the ePub and Kindle formats will last, from an archival standpoint.
Anyway, I have been the happy recipient of $1 (plus shipping, so $5), slightly worn hardcovers from Amazon Marketplace. I don't see how there could be such a thing as a "used" eBook, that is true, but I do think their prices should be lower.
It would also be nice if all Amazon eBooks had that "share" capability. So few of them do. That is probably a bit off-topic, though.