A secondary market in digital goods [News]

Like your Kindle? and all those e-books you’re reading on it?  What about reselling the e-book once you’ve read it? The company that amazed the world with its transformation from a bookseller to a technology leader has some other plans for the e-books it sells so cheaply. It intends to create an exclusive second-hand market for used e-books, according to a patent that it has recently been awarded. Nicholas Carr weighs in with his thoughts on the idea that pushes the envelope on the idea of “goods”. 

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