HarryT, I agree with you with most of the views expressed here, and I would say that lots of arguments here even have no point of being discussed, like if author or publishers should be payed for his work, or how should they get paid. But I have to say that with the 'gray' areas of the whole matter you do have a very strong moral positions.
So, here is my question: it looks like
paperbackdigital has today gone out of business, and what this means is, that people have essentially lost their ability to re-read their books. In your opinion what should people do, to re-read their lawfully bought books:
- buy yet another pbook or ebook and read it
- go on darkent, download the book and read it
- forget about it and not read it, after all they were not buying a book, but a limited license to read the book
I think what it comes down to, is a moral decision what is right, and you will have a very hard time of convincing anybody to go out and buy the same ebook again...