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Originally Posted by ApK
Elfwreck, your repitition of the term "copyright law" suggests you may have misread my post. I only referred to copyright law in the context of defining your rights with a p-book. I didn't suggest in any way that the benefits I listed for ebooks came from copyright law, only that they exist and should be factored into what we think is a fair price.
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For most people, lack of ability to share or give away a purchase *drastically* lowers the value, enough that whatever perqs it might contain are almost irrelevant.
And several of the features you mentioned aren't features of "ebooks" but features of some hardware/software combinations used to access ebooks. (Paper books can be used as kindling! As insulation! But these aren't considered "features" of paper books, reasons why they are the price they are.)
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And you also may have missed my use of the phrase "in many cases" which I put in just to avoid needless posts of the exception cases...didn't work, eh?
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"In many cases" is based on hardware, software, and the store used to buy them; it's not a trait of the ebook itself, but of the entire access package.
And yes, it's sometimes relevant. However, I'm annoyed that, while many ebook stores hype "read on multiple devices!!!", none of them mention "not a sale like a pbook! Only a license! With terms we won't actually give you at time of sale!" in clear, direct language. So I'm prone to ignoring the hype-parts, because I don't think of them as "bonus features" as much as "what we're using to distract you from what you're NOT getting."