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Originally Posted by Giggleton
With ebooks there is no hoarding either, everyone can access the book.
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hoard - definition of hoard by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus ...
www.thefreedictionary.com/hoard
A hidden fund or supply stored for future use; a cache. v. hoard·ed, hoard·ing, hoards. v.intr. To gather or accumulate a hoard. v.tr. 1. To accumulate a hoard of.
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I believe that a lot of people including myself hoard ebooks. I have more public domain ebooks thaan I could read in a lifetime. And quite a few others.
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Originally Posted by Giggleton
library ebooks make themselves unreadable after a set time, which is far worse than the hoarding problem anyway.
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Libraries
lend books, which implies a set period of time. Banks lend money and want it back with interest even if the loan is not overdue.
Most lending/borrowing transactions work this way among honest individuals. Why pick on libraries and ebooks? Demand the banks give us all the money we want for as long as we want it (I wish
) after all aren't most financial transactions electronic these days? Maybe the world should work this way, but it doesn't and in reality couldn't.
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Originally Posted by Giggleton
I mean wasn't the ebook supposed to end this one person at a time book problem??
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I must have missed this in the news. Many people can read the same book at a time, ebook or pbook. They can each buy a copy, read it side by side, take turns etc. You appear (perhaps I am wrong) to believe that many many people should be able to read the same one-time purchased copy of an ebook at the same time. Not impossible if enough people banded together to pay the author enough money to make it worthwhile to allow this. Maybe $10,000 for a beginning author and $300,000+ for a bestselling author. But to pay an author $9.99 or $99.99 or $999.99 and expect that the book can then be read by anyone at any time seems a might unjust.
Perhaps you don't care if you read more books by currently writing authors and want them to all stop writing as long as you can get all the older books at no cost. Maybe all people who want to get paid for creating or even working should stop as well.
Perhaps you have a plan that enable authors to make what they deserve to make (and currently what they deserve to make is determined by those who want to read their books and do so legitimately). If you do please share it with us.
Helen