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Originally Posted by queentess
Oh, is that all?
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Indeed. The current status quo is by no means a given. Why am I allowed to buy physical books and re-export them (all on the up and up, sellers will ship them to me), but not ebooks? It really wouldn't take all that much to change that.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I wish it were as simple as you make it sound. If it were, we would not be having this discussion. (How much fun is it to get a law changed where you live? What's involved and how long does it take? I'm willing to bet the process is neither short nor simple.)
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Define "simple". The EU, e.g. could do it with a stroke of the (legal) pen by passing a regulation.
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They are still a minority of book sales.
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Yes, and publishers are doing their darndest to keep 'em that way.
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If you're in the US, for example, you can probably get most of what you want legally.
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Thank you for this wonderful example of applied omphaloskepsis.
Too big to fail? Yeah, I've heard that one before.