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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I guess... Perhaps age equates to quality of writing and words fall of the page.
Sometimes new is better and sometimes it is not, like fine wine and vintage cars. With a lot of stuff value appreciates or depreciates with age. Not books IMO.
Of course there is a growing school of thought that feels that because x people have perhaps bought a book they should get it cheaper, (freeloaders perhaps) but this should have nothing to do with age as some bestsellers gross more in their first few months than most older books ever have. Inflation and peer pressure.
Still if you feel that old books are less enjoyable or less prestigious to own, then you are perfectly within your rights to set the price you will pay or not buy them at all. Stating that the are only worth a price of your choosing seems a bit arbitrary and presumptious. A bit like walking into a restaurant and paying them whatever amount you feel will break them even for the day.
Helen
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Given how eBooks are made these days, paying $10 for an eBook full of OCR/dictionary replace errors is not a good thing. A lot of backlist eBooks are made by scanning then OCRing and not properly proofreading. I just read
Sharpe's Tiger and it had a number of errors that would have been caught in a proper proofread. It's a backlist book and It was either a PDF source or a scan/OCR and it showed. One of the characters had his name botched in a number of places. R for it in a few places and other stupid errors. So do you want to pay $10 for an eBook with stupid errors created by someone too lazy to do any proofing?
It's pathetic how backlist eBooks are created. They come through very poor (overall).