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Originally Posted by kennyc
Yes those are the two main issues and have been from the beginning from what I see. Of course I come from a software background where these have been issues for a while.
Thanks for the thread and the link!
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I've always thought of software and text as being two different things myself. When I buy a computer program I know that I don't have the right to decompile it and sell copies of my version to others. In fact when installing a program I'm asked if I accept the terms of the programs makers or not. There isn't that same kind of thing in traditional books. Or at least it isn't as visible. There is still copyright, but the publisher has never had the right to take back my copy of a book in the past. For that matter the only thing software makers have done in the past is to stop supporting the version of a program that I have. I still had it in the physical sense. Ebooks are having a good set of pains, both birthing and growing and I don't imagine they will be done any time soon.