I'm wondering if part of the anxiety is about the used market spilling over into new - a distinction which to most is about the way a book looks and feels rathe

I'm wondering if part of the anxiety is about the used market spilling over into new - a distinction which to most is about the way a book looks and feels rather than its commercial provenance. Nothing really stops a book dealer to list a used book as new if it sufficiently looks like one. And as long as they have enough reputation clout on Amazon, they will short-circuit the publishers' sales chain and win the Buy Box.