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Originally Posted by darryl
But the market would very quickly reach a point where there would be no sales of "new" ebooks.
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If you mean new sales of any one particular book might slow to halt sooner than they otherwise would, it's certainly possible. But I posited earlier (maybe in another thread, I can't recall) that perhaps it would be offset by the generation of MORE sales during the shortened period because the possibilty of recouping some cost in the used market may attract buyers who would otherwise have waited for a reduced price or a library copy or other non-purchase option.
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I'm not saying it is not possible to create a so-called used market for ebooks. It is just very foreign to the basic concept of electronic files, and would be very highly contrived. I really don't think it would be worth the trouble, and it really would take a lot of thought to come up with something halfway workable which retailers and publishers would want to be involved in. One thing I can think of is that bookstores or publishers might agree to buy back your electronic files with payment in the form of a credit off a "new" ebook, probably one credit redeemable per book. This would provide a seller with a market for their "used" electronic files without a corresponding buyers market.
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I agree, except that I think it could be worth the trouble, not only in and of itself, but as a step toward changing markets and systems in a potentially better, more innovative and adaptable, direction