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Originally Posted by ApK
No, "same" and "less" are not the only choices. There is also "more but different." Which is what it must be because they ARE different. They have different properties and require different rules.
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Your argument (i.e., that different media provide different possibilities to customers, and therefore different sets of rights) is flawed. The difference in customer's rights between pbooks and ebooks are
not due to the difference in medium: they are due instead to different policies adopted by the vendors.
How convenient for ebook vendors that the "increased possibilities" that ebooks provide to customers (in addition to those associated to pbooks) are all free of charge for them (the vendors)! While all the "reduced possibilities", i.e. the features that customers are used to get from pbooks but are not available with ebooks, are due to
choices of the vendor. Coincidentally, such choices have the side effect of maximizing the income of the vendor.
For example: you can't lend your ebooks to your friends because the terms of service say so; you can't bring your books from your old home (your current device) to your new one (another device sold by a competitor) because the terms of service say so; you can't sell (or give as a present) your book to someone else because the terms of service say so. And so on...