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Originally Posted by nekokami
I know at least one professional author who hates this practice, because she gets nothing from those resold books. (Which is another problem -- there ought to be a way to set up author accounts on Amazon so you can optionally choose to send a percentage of a used book sale to the author.)
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And Ford doesn't get a cut on all those used F150's either.
I'm a firm believer that authors should be compensated for their work, but I don't know that they should get paid
again for the same exact copy. If folks want to do so voluntarily, that's excellent, but trying to
build it into the marketplace is reinforcing the content rental concept, except
expanding it to cover the physical as well as the digital.
If you sell something, you
sell it, and you release all claims to that something, except duplication for profit by the buyer. Just like it's not right for me to outright copy the F150 (if I were that nuts) and sell my own version.
It's interesting that Publishers see the exposure value of having their books in libraries (which typcially sell their books after several years of use), but
don't see the same exposure value from private lending or resale.
