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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
I did not get the CDs free for the LPs I had bought when I moved from albums to CDs. I don't expect to get the digital version of books that I purchased for free now.
If I want the e-book version of something I already own, I buy it. I have probably repurchased about 50 books for my e-reader because I wanted to read the e-book version. I will repurchase the Harry Potter books when they become available as e-books.
I have a feeling that is going to be a long, long time coming.
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What you say makes sense, but there's been a culture change thanks to digital goods. People are now used to the idea of buying an MP3 once and being able to stick it on multiple devices or burn it to CD (i.e. format shifting). It's not the same thing, but people operate by using analogies, and the analogy isn't very hard to make; It's actually very interesting - people have moved from viewing the container (i.e. a paper book or magazine) as the unit of stuff that they're buying to seeing the information in that container as the thing they're buying.