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Re:"Magic Words" Trump User Rights: Ninth Circuit Ruling in ... by kgermino on Monday September 13, 2010 @06:15PM (#1688549)
WRT your question about buying a book for half price that you can't resell it's been going on for a little while now with college textbooks.

Case in point: my accounting textbook (a new edition) comes in three versions:

a $200 hardback book which can easily be resold at the end of the semester like any other book

a $120 unbound version that is three hole punched (so you can put it in a binder) but that no bookstore will buy at the end of the year, making it hard to sell

a $40 e-book that you can load from virtually any device (I believe that there is a iPad app even) but the e-book is impossible to resell thanks to the magic of DRM.

Based on my experience in the class there is a about even spread among the three.

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Re:"Magic Words" Trump User Rights: Ninth Circuit Ruling in ... by tylerritchie on Monday September 13, 2010 @08:42PM (#1688905)
That's interesting and actually reasonable. Well, reasonable as far as pricing for a disposable license to a text that's required for a course.

You'd be hard-pressed to sell the $200 book for $160 at the end of the quarter/semester.

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