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Originally Posted by Sparrow
My answer to Harry's question would be 'No'.
In the market place, goods need to be available when a buyer wants to purchase - producers can't expect to regulate demand to suit themselves, although they may try.
I can't see it being any different to buying a second-hand book, and then being expected to buy it again when (if) it goes back into print.
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I see it as entirely different.
For example, as I've said in another thread, I don't personally believe that owning a paper book gives you some "God-given right" to the equivalent eBook. I own several different paper editions of "The Lord of the Rings", and had created a eBook version for my own personal use long before it was officially available as an eBook. But as soon as the official eBook was released, I bought it. Not because I wanted to read it (my own version is a lot better!), but because it was (in my personal code of ethics) the right thing to do.