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Originally Posted by tirsales
Well Harry, it seems that we have to agree to disagree. Some people reread books and keep them (every shelf in my flat or in my cellar is stacked three books deep. And still - books pile up) and reread them over many years. I do this - okay, I throw away a number of books I dont like, but most books are kept.
Others read books only once. I agree - if I would like to read a book only once, that problem would not occur. But as it is I - and most people I know - reread books every now and then. Over years.
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I am still re-reading pbooks (25p anybody)I bought 40 years ago, despite moves etc. Interestingly books from that long ago are wearing better than more recent ones.
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Originally Posted by akiburis
Why not just accept that an ebook is a different thing from a paper book? A paper book is an object that you can buy and, having bought it, own outright. A commercial ebook is something else, something that you pay to use under certain limited terms and conditions. Not altogether unlike like buying a ticket to a movie, when you pay just to see the showing you paid to see. You may not like this, but that doesn't in the least affect the legitimacy of publishers' reasons for treating ebooks differently from paper books, because they are something different from paper books.
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In that case bring the price of a new e-book to
well below the price of the p-, h-books.