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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Wonder what the position is on those that buy the book and sell or give away the paper copy.
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I buy few books. But when I do, unless it's reference, I toss it.
Hopefully, no one is horrified
Reread? I hardly ever do it. And if I did, it would be decades from now. It wouldn't make sense to me to drag the book from dwelling to dwelling, or even from eReader to eReader.
So, um, I did just buy a brand new $4.73 + tax, free shipping, University of Kentucky doorstop from Amazon -- perhaps the same one AnemicOak discusses in #8:
http://www.amazon.com/Beetle-General...r+Bedell+Smith
Wasteful? Well, it's no different from what publishers do:
http://editorialass.blogspot.com/200...s-printed.html
As for the wisdom of Kentucky's program, it must be an experiment, and I hope it works for them. Best case for them is if the offer causes the sale of the lowest priced used books, so the remaining used books become more expensive. Then the people who don't like used anyway will be more likely to pay for new.