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Originally Posted by BoldlyDubious
The difference in customer's rights between pbooks and ebooks are not due to the difference in medium
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I (obviously) disagree, at least in part.
For example, you CAN lend your pbook to someone because in doing so, you are handing them your one and only copy, no additional copies are being made, copyright is not violated.
You CANNOT lend your ebook to some one, because in transferring the data, you are creating a copy and violating copyright.
Lending mechanisms ARE in place to address this. Kindle and Nook have lending features, libraries lend ebooks. Of course, we can dislike the current mechanism and want a better, more flexible one.
You are also free to lend your ebook to someone by lending them your ereader.
(Someone, perhaps ew, will likely want to point out that some draconian TOSes try to restrict even that, but that's the exception, not the rule. I feel we need to work within or work to change the rules in good faith. Tyrannical and unjust exceptions, I'll stand and fight with the radicals.)
As for charging money for features that cost nothing to offer, they have every right to set a market price and try to make a profit. Like everything else in the marketplace, if the price is too high for the value you place on the thing, don't buy the thing. They are not non-profit charities obligated to pass on every cost savings cent for cent.
ApK