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Originally Posted by ApK
Absolutely. (Although "no actual ownership" is a false red-herring that practically reduces to exactly the same thing as "restricted ability to lend, no ability to resell.")
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No actual ownership, depending on the DRM platform, may also include the future inability to read the book, and/or be restricted on how it can be read, and/on which devices. Those are all properties of a license, not ownership.
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So we agree on that, but you still maintain to support Sregener claim that only a minority weigh the whole middle part of that determination highly?
I certainly see no evidence of that, and lots of evidence against it.
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I don't know who that is.
I'm happy to maintain my own claims, other people can take care of their own.
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And I notice that you didn't, in your list of factors, say "Price OF EBOOK AS COMPARED TO PAPER" which is the only element of price as a factor that I've ever questioned.
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And that is a reasonable point.
I think for me, it is more that I am not willing to pay (the price that a normal paperback costs) for an eBook, rather than that I am not prepared to pay (the price that
this paperback costs) for an eBook.
And that itself splits into two. a) The eBook is restricted in ways that the pBook is not, and b) I resent being asked to pay a higher markup for an eBook than a pBook.
There is a floor price for a pBook, given the extra costs that exist, that is higher than the floor price for a pBook. I can't reasonably expect pBook costs to be reduced to match eBook costs, I can reasonably expect some of the saving for the eBook to be passed on to me, as the consumer.