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Old 04-07-2015, 05:04 PM   #9
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Can you really do that with an out-of-date textbook? Who would want to buy it?
Out-of-date textbooks on most subjects are still good textbooks (except something really fast moving like programming) so you probably can sell them even if you have to lower a price a lot.

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You probably paid significantly less for the ebook than the paper book, so that at least partially mitigates the fact that you can't re-sell it.
If he spent £20 on it I won't be so sure. Also more often than not paperbacks(softcover) books are as cheep as ebooks. (for example one of my favourite writers Jim Butcher last book in Paperback is 3$ cheaper than Kindle version http://goo.gl/wEI6V3)

I read a lot, and travel while reading so I use ebooks, but even softcover books are more appealing to read and look better on a real bookshelf than more ebooks on a website.
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