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This is an under-appreciated strength of ebooks: they can't be resold. With print books, publishers risk undermining their own inventory. The more print books
by thadjo 11y ago
This is an under-appreciated strength of ebooks: they can't be resold.
With print books, publishers risk undermining their own inventory. The more print books they sell, the more they fuel the used market, which drives down prices. This is countervailing force to the typical upward price pressure of high demand.
Not so with ebooks. Plus you don't have to cut down trees, stamp them with poisonous dyes, and move them around with oil-sucking cargo ships, frieghtliners, forklifts and such.
If only ebooks didn't suck so bad...
- theatgrex 11y agoThey can't be resold ... But They can be copied and transmitted for free
- joe5150 11y agoRight. If I want to steal 5,400 different physical books, I'm going to need a truck and some criminal intent and probably a half dozen or more bookstores to get them all from. eBooks, on the other hand....
- thadjo 11y agoThis is true. My point was more about how publishers should value print as opposed to ebooks. The value of a print sale is diminished to some extent by it's fueling of the used market. So whatever a publisher values a print sale should be discounted to some degree. The same is not true for ebooks. An additional sale of an ebook does not discount the general price of ebooks.