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Originally Posted by Amadeus
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.
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.
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I don't think Sony had the bargain hunter in mind when they created this device. The pricing is definitely not my concern. I was always one that never had a problem throwing money down for a new release Hard Cover Bestseller for a book. I also always kept my books never sold them, and rarely lend them out. As silly as it sounds I love looking at my bookshelf realizing how many books I've read, and often pick up a great book to read it again years later.
As far as the 3 ways of making this work:
1. Music services don't allow us to sell our music after a few years, I can sell a used CD or a book, but I don't see it happening with E-Books either.
2. Out of curiosity, how do you plan to sell it? Does that mean you can no longer read it yourself?
3. You can transfer your book, you just have to authorize that other reader or computer on your account.
Music artists stood against used CD Stores and Electronic pirating of music in the forms of Napster and and the like. Author's never seemed to publicly stand against used book stores, my guess is their philosophy was more open minded when it came to people reading their books......I'm not saying your ideas are bad, I'm pointing out that I don't think that is the market Sony is looking to go for.
The good news is sites like Manybooks.com give you the ability to legally download the books for free formatted for our Readers, and you can e-mail a link to someone without having to sell it and say this one is free for you too.
You can't do that with music.