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Would You Sell Your Used Ebooks?

Unknown Saturday, February 9, 2013
I hope everyone in the northeast is staying safe and warm, and enjoying a good book. I'm currently hunkered down with a cup of tea, deciding on what to read. 

Here is some really interesting news-- Amazon is developing a way to lead a reader sell used ebooks. Essentially, you will be able to transfer an ebook from your reader to another's, and it would disappear from your library. This sounds like just another way ebooks are going to become more like paper books. In a future post we will discuss this feature along with ebook "lending". 

Note that Amazon has the patent for this technology, so it sounds like it will only work for Kindle ebooks. Publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin suggests that Amazon may have secured this patent just to keep it out of the market, since it could be extremely disruptive to the already volatile book market. 

Would you sell your "used" ebooks? Would this make ebooks seem more like paper books to you?


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