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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Well, of course not all books are currently available in ebooks. The point is that since ebooks don't take warehouse space and are not taxed as inventory, you can easily always make them available for purchase. Having a book always available for purchase is a very different model than the old model of a book being reprinted every few years on a regular basis. Ebooks only go out of print when the copyright holder doesn't want to make them available. While I'm sure there will be the occasion where the copyright holder wants to remove them from the market, I doubt it will be the norm.
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Explain to me how it's different to person wanting to buy said e-book.
You can buy a old p-book used. You can't even buy a used e-book.
So they totally disappear from the marketplace. Just like the P-book going out of print, only more so. It doesn't matter
to the buyer whether the copyright holder wants them to be "in print" and haven't figured out how to best do it, or whether they just don't want them in print.
Here's personal example. In 2008, I got a free copy (Baen's free library) of Doc Sidhe by Aaron Alliston. I finally got around to reading it last year. I liked it so much, I went out to buy the sequel and put in $4 to the "free" book. I wanted to pay the author.
I couldn't. It's out of print for e-books. I don't buy p-books any more. I could pirate the e-book, I suppose, but I want to pay the author. So I'm stuck...