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Ok, you could strip the watermark from your copy but this requires criminal energy which none of us can imagine. Means which DRM cannot be stripped? Then you have an illegal copy of copyrighted content anyway. Personally, I think that keeping a copy of a sold ebook which has been read before the sale isn't of much value anyway. It will be forgotten on the shelf. However, publishers probably need to impose a waiting time period until an ebook may be resold in order to avoid a first-sell-then-read avalanche. |
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The file is not ageing but the content is.
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Everybody is missing the forest for the trees here. The real problem is that publishers are still trying to enforce rules of scarcity where it makes zero sense. Talking about a digital file being "used" and therefore somehow less valuable is completely illogical. The first publisher to come up with a common sense business model that doesn't treat digital books like a physical commodity is going to make a fortune and leave everybody else in the dust.
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In our system scarcity is merely one factor we use to determine value, not the only one. In fact we've made laws and treaties specifically to help establish and protect the value of intangibles like intellectual property. Calling the transfer of a license 'selling a used eBook' makes perfect sense, both as a convenient analog to used pbook sales, as as a literal reference to selling your licensed rights after you have used them. |
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Why would I sell my "used" ebook at a lower price when it's identical to a new one? |
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You're question is correct. Why would you? But the argument doesn't work both ways. Only one way. "New" and "Used" ebooks are identical. As there is no deterioration in quality, you would be competing directly with the seller of "new" ebooks. This is why I think this concept is essentially a nonsense when applied to ebooks.
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Maybe publishers will start to include some new value-adds for "new" buyers. |
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Still, it works; I grab every David Weber e-ARC they bring out :-) |
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Or perhaps the "used" ebooks could be run through a random corruption algorithm prior to sale to simulate wear and tear, spills etc. Yes, I am joking. |
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For one thing, if no one buys new eBooks, there won't be a used eBook market. For many people the price is not the key -- they want the book, or DVD or (whatever) as soon as it comes out. Others are willing to wait -- or, perhaps, to buy a used book they just discovered for the first time. When I go to Amazon for an MP3 album, I'll often find that the used CD is much cheaper and buy and rip that CD myself.
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