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Old 12-28-2009, 01:21 PM   #168
Elfwreck
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Originally Posted by Shaggy View Post
they need to figure out how to allow ebook sharing & resales.

This is what they really want to fight. Sharing and resale are both competition to new book sales.
Yep. They're looking at ebooks as a way to enforce "one purchase = one user." And for the most part, upper-class/wealthy people accept that as reasonable, and students and lower-class communities, who have always survived with a lot of sharing and resales, have outright rejected it.

Which is what happened with music & video games: the biggest market demographic utterly rejects the idea of one sale meaning one user, and the publishers had no plan in place to deal with anything else.
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