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Originally Posted by twowheels
I think that used books would sell for more than used books do currently (due to the lack of degradation of digital files that everybody keeps mentioning) and yet the publisher gets a cut of used sales, which they currently don't with paper books.
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Let's see if I understand your proposal.
There is no difference to the buyer between a used eBook and a new one. And the same merchants sell both. So there's no reason for the merchant to communicate to the buyer whether the copy purchased was new or used, because there is no such thing as used or new. It all comes from the same bit-bucket.
If that's right, then, your proposal is for Amazon, kobo, etc., to buy back eBooks after reading. Then, Amazon gets rewarded for setting up the buy-back software by being allowed to pay the publisher a radically reduced price for a number of copies equal to the buy-back.
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Originally Posted by twowheels
I'd probably buy more books new and for a higher price if I knew that I could resell them.
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And not just you. Your plan would increase the economic value of eBooks and thus the initial selling price. I'm not giving that as a reason to oppose it. I haven't thought through the implications enough to have an opinion yet.
Your plan, again if I understand it, transfers money from book collectors to those who read once and then toss. Since I don't collect books, this isn't totally repellent to me
