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Originally Posted by ficbot
if publishers want to sell me a pure, distilled IP divorced from the physical medium, then the price should be lower to compensate for the loss of rights I am experiencing as a result of this absence of physicality  |
If you want the physicalities of a pbook, then a pbook is what you should be buying. You can't buy an ebook, then complain you don't have a pbook.
Prices, as I'm sure you're aware, are set by market forces, not courts of law. They are the result of negotiations between consumers and producers. If you don't like the price, don't buy it.
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Originally Posted by ficbot
But if they are charging me the full price, it is unreasonable to not expect that I will want full rights. If they want to take away some rights I currently have, they need to take away some dollars from the sticker value too. I think eventually the law will come around to this point.
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What point? That legal rights are commoditizable? Value-adds tacked on to increase sticker price?
Nobody is taking away any rights you currently have since, vis-a-vis the IP content you never had any to begin with. If you want those rights, go buy a pbook. If you want an
ebook with those same rights (and more), read PD.
Question: all those rights you want over your ebooks -- to what, specifically, do they attach, since not to the intellectual content? And by what mechanism?