You're still missing my point... you can't/don't predict the way that life is going to go... choose the renting/cloud option , get dealt a raw deal and you've got nothing because the actual digital material (whatever it is) doesn't belong to you... if it's on my computer/reader/DVD/Hard Disk then it's mine regardless of what may happen bar total disaster...
Renting/cloud, it's all the same, back in someone else's control whereas the whole point of modern computing came about as Personal Computing to remove the power from the high priests of the mainframe... now we're blithely handing it back...
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Originally Posted by Anke Wehner
Uh, nobody is arguing that you should be unable to buy books if you want to.
More like, the option to read an ebook by "renting" for a low sum, rather than shilling out the full sales price and if you don't like the book being stuck with a file you can't resell, might be attractive for the kind of voracious reader who read most books they read only once.
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