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Old 01-01-2014, 02:51 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
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.
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.

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