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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Perhaps I'm being simplistic, but doesn't 'in book form' mean not radio plays or audiobooks, not film/tv adaptations, and so on? I doesn't seem at all unreasonable to say that an ebook is a book.
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It does to me--I can resell books I own. If ebooks are legally "books," I should be able to loan, transfer or resell them. I should be able to make notes in it, as many as I want. I should be able to copy a few pages to letter-sized paper to do a reading for my literature class. I should be able to leave it on a shelf for fifty years and will it to my children.
The problem isn't with the claim that "ebooks are books." It's with the claim "ebooks are books, except with a lot less durability and fewer rights."