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Originally Posted by bwana
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.
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The thing to remember is that "used digital content" is itself an oxymoron. Whenever you use or transfer digital content you're actually creating a new copy. There is no such thing as a "used copy," so selling "used digital content" for public consumption makes about as much sense as selling "used food," for someone else's consumption (though for different reasons).