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Topic	Should selling used books be illegal?
ParanoidObsessive 07/29/18 8:07:06 PM #24:	I'm kind of surprised no one's really explicitly pointed out the parallel to used games, where we're constantly told that used sales cost developers money via lost new sales, and that no one "buys" a video game as much as we merely license the right to play the game while the developer retains all of the rights to the original content, thus making copying, modding, or otherwise altering "your" game technically immoral. PoIl6177 posted... No. A car's value depreciates with use. A book's value doesn't. A book's value depreciates faster than the average car. Especially mass-market modern books from the last 100 years or so, which tend to use substandard paper and highly acidic inks. Even barely read books from the 80s tend to be extremely yellowed in their pages, if not outright turning brown. Ink dims, cover colors fade if stored anywhere with any exposure to sunlight (or even just strong lighting in general), and the paper grows somewhat brittle. Meanwhile, books that are actually READ tend to develop creases in the spine (for paperbacks), suffer separation of pages from the spine either from stresses or due to adhesive losing grip, and generally just tend to have dog-ears and tears on corners. And THAT'S from people who actually take care of books to some degree. If you read while you eat, or just toss books in a pile on the floor, or in a box, or bend the cover back over while you read, or leave it propped open to save your page, or otherwise treat it like crap, books tend to deteriorate extremely fast. Most public libraries tend to have a significant turn-over in books because of this (especially in the children's section). papercup posted... Why must you people feed the trolls? Because it's PotD. There's nothing else to do here. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:905933748] in Should sel... [t:76853153]...</cite> <quote>I'm kind of surprised no one's really explicitly pointed out the parallel to used games, where we're constantly told that used sales cost developers money via lost new sales, and that no one "buys" a video game as much as we merely license the right to play the game while the developer retains all of the rights to the original content, thus making copying, modding, or otherwise altering "your" game technically immoral. <cite>PoIl6177 posted...</cite> <quote>No. A car's value depreciates with use. A book's value doesn't.</quote> A book's value depreciates faster than the average car. Especially mass-market modern books from the last 100 years or so, which tend to use substandard paper and highly acidic inks. Even barely read books from the 80s tend to be extremely yellowed in their pages, if not outright turning brown. Ink dims, cover colors fade if stored anywhere with any exposure to sunlight (or even just strong lighting in general), and the paper grows somewhat brittle. Meanwhile, books that are actually READ tend to develop creases in the spine (for paperbacks), suffer separation of pages from the spine either from stresses or due to adhesive losing grip, and generally just tend to have dog-ears and tears on corners. And THAT'S from people who actually take care of books to some degree. If you read while you eat, or just toss books in a pile on the floor, or in a box, or bend the cover back over while you read, or leave it propped open to save your page, or otherwise treat it like crap, books tend to deteriorate extremely fast. Most public libraries tend to have a significant turn-over in books because of this (especially in the children's section). <cite>papercup posted...</cite> <quote>Why must you people feed the trolls?</quote> Because it's PotD. There's nothing else to do here. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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