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Originally Posted by susan_cassidy
By that logic, if the author only ever sold one copy of his book, because everyone else copied it, it would be ok with you.
I disagree.
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Exactly.
The difference with ebooks over regular books is that you aren't just borrowing a physical object, you're making a copy. Only the copyright owner and his license holder (the publisher) have the right to make a copy.
A reader who wants to share my book with a few friends doesn't bother me. It's like passing around a physical book. If this informal sharing gets too efficient, or if someone takes my book and posts it on the internet as a free download for everybody, I have a problem. Where I part ways with the big publishers is the solution to the problem. They see the solution as DRM; I see it as making the ebook readily available at a low price.
I don't see a relationship between a dead tree edition and the ebook, unless the publisher sells them as a package. They're different products and buying one doesn't give you any rights to the other, IMO.