[Upd-discuss] Publishers want to invalidate

[Andy Oram]

I'll just say, as a book editor, that I won't worry too much
about the effect of used books on my sales until someone
figures out how to sell a book used without first buying it
new. (I don't speak for my company, but I think most people
here feel the way I do.)

I'll make one more general observation, about hysteria over
Internet file sharing. There are so many publishers (in the
music industry, etc.) who are saying file-sharing destroys
their business models. The growth of the used-book and
record market shows that the Internet has introduced a huge
variety of (sometimes hard to predict) changes in
marketplaces that affect lots of industries. It's time to
get over it and adapt.

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