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Originally Posted by HarryT
You are buying a licence, just as you are with a paper book.
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No, you are not buying a license when you buy a paper book. You are buying a copyrighted work, which comes with certain use restrictions (e.g. making copies without permission.) However, the physical book is quite literally yours. You can sell it, loan it, donate it to a library, and so on.
No one has the right to enter your home and remove it from your home, even if it was later determined that the store you purchased the book from had, in fact, stolen the books from another source. In other words, the "license" you seem to think books come with cannot be revoked, even if you violated the terms of that license. Thus, it is ownership in the real sense.