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Originally Posted by crich70
But if Amazon didn't have the books available as ebooks many people who don't live near a bookstore would be denied access to a good part of the world's literature wouldn't they? And wouldn't that be discriminatory? i.e. Sorry you don't live in the right place for you to have access to a bookstore so you can't buy a copy of (insert book title). Granted not everyone even now has access to the internet for one reason or another, but many who had no access to books now do because of things like wireless internet and 3G. And what of the old books that google has saved digitally that aren't in copyright any longer? Are we supposed to let them all vanish because a publisher (who wasn't even born when the book was written) wants to keep it a strictly physical book and not an ebook?
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I am not sure what you mean. I have lived in a few towns without bookstores in the last 15 years and I couldn't buy a book. Has this changed in some way?
Was I being discriminated against because none of the local stores sold books?
My current job is in a town where they don't even sell newspapers although you can of course have them mailed if you don't mind old news or access them online if you have a computer and internet access. Needless to say many of the people in this community don't.
Like you I would like to see all books as ebooks but I must defend the right of any vender/business to sell what they want to sell and how they want to sell it and for how much etc.
If a particular book is only available in paper format that is an inconvenience, not a violation of an inviolate right or discriminatory IMO.
Helen