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Blaming publishers' woes on the used book market is downright silly.
Whether those used books are sold in a backalley store or from someone's basement, the fact is that publishers and authors never got payment from used book sales, and usd book sales have been going on for over a century. If it didn't bring the industry down decades ago, it sure won't be the vehicle to bring the industry down now.
What's bringing down publishers is their steadfast refusal to update with the times, to embrace the trends they saw coming 10-20 years ago. They've waited too long to alter their old way of doing things, and it will certainly cost many publishers their existence (while giving rise to other, more foreward-thinking publishers and independents).
Blaming it on third parties like used books is just a disingenuous way of ducking blame for their own short-sightedness.
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