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Originally Posted by HarryT
Why didn't you just buy the eBook version in the first place? You would have saved $20, and had something that was more convenient to carry around.
I'm a little unclear about why you say that you are being "required" to repurchase it; nobody is going to force you to do so. All you have to do is make the decision as to whether having the eBook is worth $49 to you. If it is, buy it, if it isn't, don't. Is is "ethical" to take the eBook without paying for it? Personally I'd say not. Is it legal? Absolutely not!
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There was no e-book version at the time I purchased the paper version. I might have considered buying it, even though it is published in a DRM'd .pdf format. Thanks to the "pirates," I can now grab a copy in .chm, which is easy to put on a reader. I am a paying customer, but all thye publisher has done is make things difficult and expensive for me, and forces me to deal with a crappy DRM scheme if I want to legally purchase their e-book. No wonder the ebook market is thriving.....
Now, I AM being required to repurchase the book if I want to have it in an e-format. Force me to do so? No, of course not. But, since I already own the p-book, at least according to US law, I CAN legally have an e-book format- what the heck is the difference whether I scan it in myself or download it from the net? Like a music cd- if I own it, I can have it in mp3 format. And ethically, I think I am justified also. Look at it this way- if I was a bad guy, a horrible "ebook pirate," I would have just grabbed an un-DRMd pirate copy of the book, period. No cash in for the publisher. As it stands, the publisher already got my $70- no way am I going to be a sap and send him $50 more. If that's what he expects, he will lose my business altogether.