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Originally Posted by akiburis
Sorry. Whatever an ebook may be by its very nature, it exists as a digital file. Which is a material form. Otherwise, you'd have to get your ebooks from God.
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This is trivially not true. A book can be in a database for example. Or it can be stored distributed on the net and the bits do not have to be stored in a file. An ebook can also exist as radio waves. You can broadcast a lot of book and just tune in to them when reading.
Also a file is an abstraction. It can be vary hard to identify which parts store the information. Sometimes it can be impossible when the information you see available to you is store encrypted on different computers and it is impossible to know were they are stored.