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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I disagree. I haven't agreed to rent any of my ebooks, I've bought my ebooks. They are mine.
The RRP of the ebook edition is a bit lower than the RRP of the paper edition, but that just reflects a reduction in book production costs.
If I was truly renting ebooks for my own personal consumption and expecting to lose access after (say) five years, I'd expect to be paying $1 per book or less, not $3 or so.
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Agree ten times over.
Take movie rentals as an example. One new release I'm watching the price on is currently $15 to purchase, whether downloaded or DVD. The typical price to rent the same movie is $3. When an ebook similarly costs me one fifth to "rent" versus purchase and comes in a time limited format, then I'll concede that the publisher still "owns" the file. But the current marginal discount to purchase an ebook instead of a paper version really only covers the material production costs of printing.
Here's to Alfing!
