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July 2010
29 July 2010
Will the Book Survive?
"Amidst all the doom and gloom of the book publishing industry, the CEO of Ingram Book Company, Skip Prichard, says books of all sorts are here to stay and we should embrace the change—and keep on reading."
27 July 2010
Are ‘second-hand e-books’ possible?
"Nick Harkaway has posted on the Bookseller’s “FuturEBooks” blog wondering about the possibility of selling “second-hand e-books”. He points out (as I did in this TeleRead post on the idea) that, since there is no physical artifact to depreciate, an e-book couldn’t really be considered “used”, so either people would pass on the e-book for exactly the same price as they paid for it or else they’d drive down the value of the book by selling it at a discount. Harkaway then proposes the ideas of “returning” an e-book to the seller in return for store credit to apply against future e-book purchases, or of letting e-book buyers keep but also “resell” e-books to others. Neither of these ideas would really fly, however, given how easy it would be to game the system."