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Originally Posted by Nick_1964
So I buy the new title for €10,- after finish reading it, i can sell it by example for €6,50
Minus 1,50 commission I get €5 for the book, so paid €5,- in total.
The new owner again can sell it in the same bookshop,and again pays the 1,50 commission.
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Why would anybody ever buy a new book, in that case, given that, unlike a paper book, a "used" ebook is identical to the original?
The difficulty I see with this is the requirement that you get rid of your original. Without verification, that's an open invitation to piracy. How do you remove it from your account at the bookstore you bought it from? Many bookstores offer no facility for doing that. How do you ensure that it's removed from every backup you've ever made? If you make backups on DVD, that would involve physically destroying all your backups. If you make Cloud backups, how can you ensure that it's removed from all the backups that the Cloud service provider has made?
The whole thing seems unworkable.