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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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I sell books on Amazon too, and the biggest problem there is $.99 books from the big resellers on Amazon (honestly I'm not sure how they even make money on those..even if they make a bit on the shipping).
Anything posted at the minimum sale price tends to go pretty fast.