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Originally Posted by leebase
Not of the file you bought. You buy a book from Amazon, read it (or not) -- and then "sell" that file. It's not even the same file, but a copy of the file -- and there should be no degredation.
And no way to ensure that the "original" (a ludicrous concept with it comes to digital files) is removed from your device, nor that you just don't sell "your file" to many people.
If you want "first buyer" (or whatever it's called), then there has to be some physical form that can't be readily copied.
It's the same reason you can't return software you buy, or music, or games. When it's so easy to just dupe the cd when you get home and then return what you purchased back to the stores, then stores CAN'T very well accep the return (if they want to stay in business).
If someone wants all the experience of buying a book -- then buy a book. If you want the experience of digital media, there are different rules.
Lee
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But you
can resell CDs and DVDs (software I don't know about), and it's very easy to copy those before you resell them. In fact it's far easier to copy a CD than it is to strip DRM from an ebook to copy it. So why should ebooks be different from CDs and DVDs?