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Originally Posted by BWinmill
I doubt that ebook resale will ever come to be because it has to be brokered by a third party in order to ensure that there is a transfer of goods. Vendors will never allow third parties to resell their ebooks. Vendors and publishers will also demand such a large cut that it won't be worthwhile to the consumer.
My real concern with the XBox One story though is that they are selling a physical product but only offering the rights conferred with a digital product. This will create confusion among some consumers and I have no confidence that prices will be lowered to reflect the reduction in rights that consumers are receiving.
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I have often seen downloadable games for Xbox and PS3 selling for 2 or 3 times the price that I paid for the game on disc. Removing the normal used game market will likely mean less downward pressure on prices.
Fortunately, book publishers don't have the ability to apply DRM to physical books. Printing a unique code into each book. Requiring an internet connection that voids the code and locks the book to your retinal print. The next reader will only see a message that the book cannot be read without purchasing a new code.
I've got maybe 100 Xbox 360 games. Probably less than 10 of them were bought used. I will be not be buying the next Xbox. Maybe I'll break out the Xbox 359 when I run out of 360 games.
I guess you could say that I'm a trifle miffed.