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Old 01-26-2011, 07:42 AM   #1
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Bookshop offers to swap Kindles for "real books"
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Are you entirely unsatisfied with the digital publishing revolution? Do you curse your Kindle? One bookseller has the answer: it'll swap your unwanted e-book reader for a stack of paperbacks, hardbacks and magazines.

Portland, Oregon-based Microcosm Publishing said it will trade a Kindle - a gadget it slams as "soulless faux-literary technology" - for the device's value in new or used books and mags.
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Anyone going to take them up on their offer?
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Old 01-26-2011, 07:51 AM   #2
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Are these going to be crappy 'recycled', or brand new bestsellers and textbooks? I kind of doubt the later.

I would only trade a reader that I didnt like the quality of if I couldnt sell it for a good price.
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Old 01-26-2011, 08:00 AM   #3
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Old 01-26-2011, 08:39 AM   #4
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Sorry, I hadn't seen the earlier thread.
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Hmmm....

The average cost of a paperback here is AU$20. I have 300 ebooks on my Kobo, so total is AU$6000.

Might be worth it. Plenty of money to buy me a Sony PRS-950 and keep me in ebook slush funds for a while.

Luddites....
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