{"id":1908,"date":"2002-04-10T13:18:19","date_gmt":"2002-04-10T18:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2002-04-10T13:18:19","modified_gmt":"2002-04-10T18:18:19","slug":"heres_one_i_hav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/10\/heres_one_i_hav.html","title":{"rendered":"Here’s one I have no sympathy for"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Authors Guild is lambasting Amazon for promoting the sale of used books<\/a>. Amazon has been offering this service for about a year, and evidently (though I’ve not gotten any such note) been suggesting to folks who recently purchased new books there that they can also sell them.<\/p>\n

It’s this latest offer that has the Authors Guild all a-twitter, since its members only get royalties from the intial sale.<\/p>\n

Well, sorry, guys and gals. If I have a choice between buying a new paperback book for $8 and a used copy for $3, guess which one I’m going to buy.<\/p>\n

Not that authors are necessarily behind the cost of paperbacks, but, frankly, if a book didn’t hold my interest enough to make me want to reread it, or keep it to share with Margie, or loan to a friend (the horror!), I don’t feel any great moral obligation force someone to buy another new copy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Authors Guild is lambasting Amazon for promoting the sale of used books. 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