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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
You have a couple of things wrong. For one, paying for an ebook doesn't give you ownership. For another, Robin Hood was an actual thief, and while I agree that painting pirates as Robin Hoods is dishonest I don't think that it was your intent to insult yourself.
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In most cases, the bolded part is 100% correct. But some cases, all too rare but still real, it is no more true than it is for paper books. I present some text from the copyright page of an ebook from BeWrite Books:
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This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s consent in any form other than this current form and without a similar condition being imposed upon a subsequent purchaser.
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As long as it is in it's original form as issued by the publisher, it comes with all the rights of a paper book. This statement protects the integrity of the IP while still granting rights of transfer to the purchaser. BeWrite actually SELLS ebooks.
It's a novel idea in the publishing world, and I love them for this. (
Sorry, but the pun stays.) If only more publishers thought this way.