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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
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.
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In the US, I know more people who trade their used books on web sites than go to Amazon or Ebay to buy them. The site I use has facilitated the trades of over 13,000,000 books since opening, at the cost of media mail or below.
I think those are a bigger competitor for used book sales than any of the other venues.
As to used ebooks, I just don't see there being such a thing. When trading or buying used books, I've gotten some that were like new, and some where I would clearly be the last owner. Eventually, the MMPB's will fall apart and disapear, taking themselves out of the game.
But ebooks don't suffer age like physical books do. I feel like they'll always be new, whether someone else owned the file or not.