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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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When I started reading books I was reading the books that my parents and my grandparents had bought. I also read books from the library. I don't need the books to be virgins.
What if the second hand ebooks couldn't be sold through the normal distributors? What if it would be something like going to a second hand brick and mortar store and buying/selling a microsd card with a book on it?