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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
And once you had purchased the used p-book and found you liked it the reason that you searched the darknet to find a e-book copy instead of purchasing it from Amazon was …? You felt that you had already compensated the author, even by purchasing a used paper copy? If you had found the book on the darknet before buying the paper version?
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I believe an ebook version wasn't available on Amazon; the worry was about buying a print version without seeing a sample first.
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Though news aggregation sites like HuffingtonPost can't help – it is still not clear to me in your model how authors who produce the original content will be fairly compensated for their creativity and time spent in producing the work. All the talk of book clubs and such just sounds to me like additional overhead that will not be provided by the author at all, but by some third party.
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Yes. We'll need new business models eventually. Right now, ebook freebies help physical sales, but that won't last forever (and it can't work for books that are out of print).
I don't know what the new models will be--but the successful one won't be "one purchase=1 reader for ebooks priced between mmpb & trade pb prices."