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Originally Posted by taming
I am not, by any means, saying that we should not advocate for the removal of barriers like geographic restrictions and DRM. I think we should be writing to Publishers, our elected representatives, and voting with our wallet. Currently there is a bill before the Canadian Parliament (Bill C-32) that probably will, when finally passed, allow the removal of digital locks (DRM) for personal use. I have written to my MP, people on the committee looking at that, and to others. Now that International ebook rights are on the agenda for most Publishers, I'm hopeful that geographic restrictions will be a temporary (albeit very annoying) thing.
I just do not feel that the addition of eBooks to my available choices gives me some sort of right to have everything I want immediately (and for free) just because there are places online where I can get these things in that way.
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Funny you should mention that, because I've been emailing a bunch of people since I got my ereader. Various publishers about ebook availability and my MP about full HST being charged on Ebooks and not on physical books.
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(There's an immorality in not paying the creators, which includes author and publisher, for their work. But if you've done that, there's no ethical reason to pay them multiple times for variants of the same work.)
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I don't know about that. If I have the hardcover version of a book, but want the paperback when it comes out, I can't just go to the store and pay them the cost of the paper and say "i already bought the material". It is the same here. I bought my first 100 fantasy books as physical books, i'm not entitled to torrent them as ebooks simply because I bought them before.