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Originally Posted by tompe
Ebooks deteriorate in the sense that newer editions will have fewer errors.
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Most commonly I think this happens with textbooks.
In theory, you could create a form of DRM where every time you transfer the book, a there is programmed deterioration -- say, one word in 400 changed at random. But in practice, buyers would not stand for this.
The truth is, Tom Kabinet is not selling used eBooks, any more than Kobo is. The electrons are not being transfered from the old owner to the new owner. They can't be, because coping an eBook file doesn't involve any movement of even the lightest particles from one place to another.*
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Originally Posted by hardcastle
I wish Amazon/Nook/Kobo and the like would stand behind formatting and no-typo quality of their files.
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Or Tom Kabinet could do it, making so-called used better than new!
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* While eBooks are theorized to have an incredibly tiny weight, it has to do with energy, not matter.