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Originally Posted by Lemurion
Just because DRM'd books are worth less to many buyers, myself included, does not mean it doesn't get factored in when setting the price.
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I don't know how often paper books change hands during the course of their lifetimes, but I get the feeling that it's more often than once. Through the fact that you're supposedly now agreeing to a "licence" when you
buy (note: it doesn't say
lease on any ebook store I've come across, so common sense/law suggests that this might not hold up in court, if you ignore that the judiciary seems to be somewhat predisposed towards
guaranteeing the "rights" of businesses to make profits.) a book, we've all suddenly lost the right to resell books we're done with. While I'm quite aware of the fact that it would be very hard to ensure that people aren't selling the same digital file over and over again without deleting it themselves, I don't quite agree that this resale worth shouldn't be factored in at all when deciding how to price an ebook. Yet this seems to be the practice.
(I would add here that, while I sincerely hope that we aren't currently paying more for paper books because the publishers feel they have a
right to be compensated for the fact that not everyone will be buying books straight from them, I'm almost afraid that they are doing so anyway.)