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Originally Posted by bhartman36
That's a subjective value judgment. Not owning a book doesn't make it inherently less valuable. It makes it less valuable to those who care about owning the book.
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The 'value' of everything in existence is subjective. Not a thing comes with value of any sort,
unless someone wants or needs it. An ebook has zero value, unless someone is prepared to pay (or barter) for it. The same goes for a pbook, except that it has more options open to it for being valued (such as the paper pulp value, etc).
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Originally Posted by bhartman36
The bottom line is, it's not as simple as "paper book > e-book", even when you take into account the limitations of the license.
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But it
is that simple. A person's belief that "pbook > ebook" is just as valid as another person's belief that "ebook >pbook", because of everything being essentially valueless until someone wants/needs it.