Thread: Would you buy the print or the ebook for the same price?
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Old 05-09-2013, 07:49 PM   #154
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Originally Posted by jersysman View Post
If I go to a restaurant and they charge the same for tea over a glass of wine, I think I'm skipping that wine!
And you don't have to worry about becoming intoxicated on tea either. There are some differences between pbooks and ebooks. Even though they degrade over time pbooks are still there a few yrs later and no special equipment is needed to read them. The same can't be said of ebooks. A personalized watermark would serve as well as DRM to catch if someone was misusing an ebook I think. Anyway, above and beyond why DRM is needed to prevent theft there is the problem that when I buy a pbook I know the publisher can't just come to my home and take it back. With DRm'd ebooks I could have books at Amazon today and find tomorrow that they have locked me out if they wished. And there would go all the funds I'd spent on ebooks.
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