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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
Lets say that a reader switches to a different brand of reader, and wants to migrate their books. Or two people get married, and they have two different brands of readers, and want to merge their bookshelves. They aren't asking for anything but to be able to read books that they paid for. If they can easily move their books, they will do that. But the more difficult you make it, the more likely that they won't even bother to remove the DRM, but instead simply download the book from pirate sites. Once they are going to pirate sites, they become increasingly likely to download not only books they have already paid for, but to download books that they haven't paid for.
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Lets just say that the reader of pbooks gets visually impaired and wants a large font edition. Is this traditionally offered as a free upgrade if he has already bought the paperback or hard cover? Do people who go blind get an audiobook for free from the author/publisher(I actually think they should but not likely). Are people without a microwave or stove entitled to have TV dinners transformed to another format?
Where I wonder are the thousands (or even hundreds of people) who have lost there content due to an ereader change. The excuse/justification for piracy is that it could happen. And of course it could, but the reports of people losing their ebook priveledges from Amazon et. al. are sneered at in an unbecoming fashion by those who advocate their rights to pirate because Amazon or someone else
may possibly do that to them some day. Pigs may not fly before this happens but they will at least have little wings on thier hoooves.
Helen