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bwana · 04-09-2010, 08:37 AM

I conclude that a market for used digital content is an oxymoron. You can't even give away your digital content. Since digital content is priced similarly to physical content when it shouldn't be, I rationalize that the publishers are charging me for the convenience of using an ereader.

At this point I see a market opportunity for apple and amazon. Accept submissions from authors directly. An additonal advantage would be a 'genius' function that could compare books based on content like gnooks, etc. I guess this reply is now off topic and will merit a thread of it's own.

04-09-2010, 08:37 AM	#114
bwana Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2010 Device: none	I conclude that a market for used digital content is an oxymoron. You can't even give away your digital content. Since digital content is priced similarly to physical content when it shouldn't be, I rationalize that the publishers are charging me for the convenience of using an ereader. At this point I see a market opportunity for apple and amazon. Accept submissions from authors directly. An additonal advantage would be a 'genius' function that could compare books based on content like gnooks, etc. I guess this reply is now off topic and will merit a thread of it's own.