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Originally Posted by Nathanael
This by no means means the purchaser owns the content, however, which is why there are things you are not allowed to do with the pbook you own -- such as photocopy its pages.
Now, keeping in mind the fact that your rights WRT a pbook derive from the physicality of the book and do not extend to the content (save for things such as the first sale doctrine), let's take a look at ebooks.
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1) your're allowed to photocopy a pbook if you want to. You can't (legally) distribute that photocopy, but you can certainly make it. Perhaps you want to annotate the contents but don't want to mark up the book? Perhaps it's a reference book you'll refer to repeatedly, thus wearing out the pages? (If you think that would take very long you've never seen auto repair manuals being used in a garage.)
2) Why shouldn't the first sale doctrine apply to ebooks?
As far as I can see the only 'legal' reason you have fewer rights with ebooks is because of lobbying/bribery by the publishing industry. And, of course, it's legal because it's lawyers who are accepting the bribes.