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Originally Posted by HarryT;
Could you provide any evidence to support your claim that the typical book gets re-sold "hundreds" of times during its lifetime? I very seriously doubt the truth of this assertion.
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To buy new English language books here in Spain often means paying the cover price again for postage.
I don't know about "hundreds" but near where I live there has been a very successful second hand book shop for over 20 years.
This shop typically marks their 2nd hand paper backs at the equivalent of $7/$10 (double this for large format & hback) of which they will credit you half on return.
They say the books return many, many times before they become unreadable. so in effect this is just a very expensive library where the author and publisher get nothing other than the first sale.
I personally would prefer to buy ebooks to keep where they are priced similarly at $3-$5 as I guess many would.