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Of course they have. It is far more difficult to copy paper books than ebooks.
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That is not protection.
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Well, actually they have less rights with ebooks. As mentioned before a paper book is a physical good. If you lend it, you are not able to use it anymore until you get it back. You can lend an ebook and still read it yourself. A paper book can only be used once at a time. You cannot divide it or multiply it. Ebooks can usually be used on at least four difference e-reading devices.
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You have incorrectly assumed that the world is Mobipocket. It isn't and the norm is not 4 different devices.
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Quote the law that says I don't have to sell you my car. Can't find it? So that would mean, that I do have to sell it to you. Right?
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Car's are not ideas. Cars are handled under property laws. Ideas are not property and, so, are handled in part by copyright laws.
Authors do not own (and have never owned) their stories. That's why their works are protected by copyright laws instead of property laws.
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If an author sells you a book under the premise that you are not allowed to lend it (just an example), than there is a legal contract between the seller (author) and a buyer (you). If you don't like certain terms in that contract, don't buy the book.
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The author then loses his right to complain that people pirate his works electronically.
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The government has decided nothing.
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Copyright, unlike property rights, is a government granted right. So, yes, the government decided.
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It is the author and publisher who decides what will happen with their books.
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The author and publisher are bound by copyright law as well. Once sold, the author and publisher cannot tell anyone what they can/cannot do with the book.
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If an author don't want to copyright his book, well, that's fine.
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The act of putting the book in physical form (like on paper) copyrights it. My grocery list, as soon as I write it down, is copyrighted automatically according to the messed up copyright laws of today.
The author would have to expressly release his work into the public domain if he wants to give up his copyright.