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Originally Posted by snipenekkid
of course you DOUBT something Harry...that is all you ever do around here, you demand proof of anything and post the contrary excessively. People don't need to prove anything to you, learn it yourself.
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If you make ludicrous claims, you must expect that people will question them. Please don't be impolite.
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But for your obvious lack of knowledge in the business of buying and selling of goods, specifically books, I'll provide an example. I can walk into any used book store here in my mud puddle of a town and find 100s of used PB's 30-40yrs old (or older) and they show it too. Are you proposing those have only been through the mill a few times? Common sense would imply otherwise.
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very much doubt that the average paperback is sold more than once or twice in its lifetime. The fact that it's 30 years old is immaterial - it's probably been sitting on someone's bookshelf for 29 years. This is easy to check: 2nd hand book stores generally write the price on the inside cover of the book, or on the title page. If your claim that a 30 year old book has been sold "hundreds" of times is correct, there will be, at a minimum, dozens of different prices written. Is that what you see? I have never seen such a thing myself. One typically sees a couple of old prices at most.
Many of the publishers' expenses for a pBook still exist for an eBook. I very much doubt that it is
possible to profitably sell an eBook for $2. If you go to $5 - there are already lots of eBooks sold in that price range; look at Baen or Fictionwise.