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Originally Posted by DougFNJ
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.
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That is because the digital media vendors are trying to use the technology to rope in the rights that we have with conventional media for their own profit. IMO this is a retrograde step.
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Originally Posted by DougFNJ
2. Out of curiosity, how do you plan to sell it? Does that mean you can no longer read it yourself?
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Sony could easily operate a service whereby you de-authorise the book from your Reader and authorise it on the Reader of the person you are selling to. As I suggest, they could charge $1 a time for this service. After selling the book you would no longer be able to read it yourself, in other words exactly the same as with a paper book. Sony thus becomes a vendor of both new and secondhand eBooks. They could offer the secondhand service on a time-controlled basis, for example only allowing you to sell the book one year after you bought it. Or only allowing books to be sold 2 years after their initial ebook release, giving Sony a head start in new sales, but allowing users to recoup their investment later. This would stimulate the eBook market enormously.
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Originally Posted by DougFNJ
3. You can transfer your book, you just have to authorize that other reader or computer on your account.
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No you cannot TRANSFER your book. You can SHARE it on up to 6 devices, but that is not the same as selling it to someone else (who could then share it on his own 6 devices) and losing the right to read it, as you would when selling a paper book.
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Originally Posted by DougFNJ
Music artists stood against used CD Stores and Electronic pirating of music in the forms of Napster and and the like.
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I'm a music artist, and I didn't. Piracy is principally the concern of commercial interests, and those musicians more motivated by money than art. The money is nice and we need it to survive, but most of the musicians I know are more interested in playing their music and getting it heard.
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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......
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I think a lot of musicians do think like the authors. They are tired of being ripped off by record companies who take all their rights in exchange for a piddling percentage, and we are seeing a backlash against this as musicians take hold of the means of distribution for themselves, setting up Web sites offering cheap downloads of their material and retaining 100% of the revenue for themselves.
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Originally Posted by DougFNJ
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.
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I think you're right about Sony, but I just question the value of what they are doing. The music companies got people's backs up by being greedy and the piracy arose out of that situation. Gradually they are either having to re-invent themselves or die. I think it is a mistake for the eBook market to try and follow the bad example of monopolising content at a relatively high price.