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Originally Posted by HarryT
Do you think that buying a hardback book gives you the right to a free paperback? The argument that buying a paper book gives you the right to a free eBook completely eludes me, I'm afraid!
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It seems to me to depend on what you think that you're buying - the content or the container. Personally, once I've paid an artist for a work by buying it at some point, I feel somewhat ripped off when I have to pay full price again in order to format shift. I felt that buying things on vinyl, then cassette, then CD, then remastered CD, etc. was a bit much. At least once they are on CD I can shift formats digitally.
For books, I've bought books that I have on paper again as ebooks (I recently bought the Hobbit again, for example, of which we have at least two paper copies). If the book is cheap enough, I'll buy it again for convenience. I can sympathise, however, with people deciding to get an unpaid digital copy when they have the same content on paper, especially if the ebook is unavailable to them or very expensive.