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"Planned scarcity" is the term. But I still think "lending" is a step forward to enable booking sharing, while preserving the incentive for writers to keep writ
by tyng 16y ago
"Planned scarcity" is the term. But I still think "lending" is a step forward to enable booking sharing, while preserving the incentive for writers to keep writing.
Needless to say Amazon will take a cut in this feature, perhaps some to the book publisher and author too. Kind of works out for everyone.
- michaelchisari 16y agoI think you're getting it confused with "planned obsolescence". The economic term actually is artificial scarcity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_scarcity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_scarcity Although the acronym Cracked uses is most definitely not the scientific one.