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Originally Posted by mlkmnz
I'd love to know how much revenue the Connect store brings in. As in, is it working how Sony planned? I used my $50 credit and that was it. Maybe if they were all under $4-$5 I'd be interested, but not full retail.
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I agree entirely with this - I did the same. If we think about paper books, I can buy a paperback for about $7 to $10, read it, then sell it at a secondhand bookstore or on eBay for about half, so there is that $4-$5 figure mentioned. If that was the price on the Connect store I'd prefer to do it that way than waste more time and more trees.
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Originally Posted by RSaunders
That's why you can't sell or give away eBooks you've read, they know number_books_read is > number_books.
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There are ways of making this work: -
- Use to DRM to control releases, so that Sony only allows books to be resold a number of years after initial publication.
- Alternatively, only allow books to be sold on a year or whatever after the initial purchase.
- Charge $1 for transfer from one Reader to another - again the DRM system allows this.