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Originally Posted by Miss
Okay, I know there technically isn't any such thing. But say someone purchased an ebook, read it, and then wasn't planning to again. Would it be legal to send it to another person and then delete all your own copies and backups of it? Are such things done at all?
Enlighten me, please.  |
That is one reason why I think the price of e-books is a complete rip-off. As the book only exists electronically and there is no paper copy that you can transfer (sell or give away) to other people, then the price should be very much cheaper. Not every e-book has DRM attached to it, though.
Another difference is that e-books can never go out of print, so is always available, with printed books, once the print run is sold then there is no more available unless re-printed.
There are a number of authors, whose books I enjoyed reading in the 1960's & 1970's but just not available now, so I think copyright law should be changed, so that if publishers are not going to republish books, then they should be allowed to be published for free as an e-book, (say around 25 years after the last printing).