Comments on: Selling Amazon Kindle Books

By: @marknanut

@marknanut — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:59:34 +0000

There may not be any established platforms for selling "used" Kindle books, and perhaps even Amazon's Terms of Service forbid that (I assume, but need to check) – so you'll have problems selling them on Ebay for instance. Still I think you can (and people should start to) sell owned Kindle books via other channels, as long as there is someone willing to buy them (and of course has faith that he's buying from a legitimate owner). But as John mentioned, enough people need to require a platform for selling used Kindle books before someone (not necessarily Amazon) will provide it.

By: John

John — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:06:45 +0000

It’s not about change. It’s about a company seeing an opportunity and taking advantage of it. As always, the power is in the consumers’ hands. When we demand the right to sell our ebooks (or we won’t buy them) then we will have that option. Companies offer what the market demands.

I, for one, will not buy any AZW formatted ebooks until I know I can sell them. I have no desire to keep all the books I read. I sell my physical copies. There is no reason that I cannot sell my electronic copies.

Amazon, if you want my money, give me the options I demand. Until then, I have plenty of TXTs and PDFs I can read on my Kindle (yes, I have the big one).

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Want To Sell Your Used eBooks? | K.indled — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:31:46 +0000

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By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:04:39 +0000

Or, instead of selling back books people can just accept the fact that this is a time of change and they will have to change with it. If you are set in your ways and refuse to adopt a new method, then you will not only be left behind but will suffer even greater when this new technology (ebooks) becomes standard and the price of physical books grows exponentially…not to mention the resell value drops significantly (just ask Pre-Med students about these issues)…

Shift Happens…