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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
The ebook reselling presents more of a problem since the ebook never wears out (and a car and regular book does). It would cripple an author's ability to make any money unless the reseller always paid something to the original artist.
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I think this ignores one of the important changes brought about by ebooks, the long tail. Publish a paper book and in a few months or a year at most it goes out of print and you get no more income from it. Publish an ebook and it might generate at least some income for the rest of your life. Publish both and every resale of the paper book can introduce a new reader to your future work as well as to your older work.
Barry