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Originally Posted by rkomar
They want more than one sale. One thing that was learned while music went through the various format changes was that people would keep buying the same stuff over and over again. It was easy money for the publishers.
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One difference there is that music generally increased in quality rather than just being a pure format shift. Although some may argue it lost quality moving from vinyl. Going cassette to CD was an improvement. CD to mp3 however was not (convenience yes, quality, no). I could understand wanting people to rebuy cassette to CD, but not CD to mp3.
Same for movies, going vhs to DVD to Bluray are all quality improvements and you should rebuy if you want them. However, is someone is happy with DVD quality and want to just convert that to their phone/tablet/computer they shouldn't need to rebuy imo.
If you buy the bluray you should be free to convert that down to any quality you want for any device freely. If you however want to get a 2k/4k/3d version in the future, expect to pay.
imho of course
I also agree with you that publishers want to sell each and every format. If they could i expect they'd lock content to one device only and one reader and require you to rebuy for future devices even of the same type.
With books, going paper to ebook or between ebook formats should be legal.