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Originally Posted by jgaiser
And finally, read your books the way you want to read them. Stop worrying about how others handle their ebooks. They're our books. We'll deal with how *we* want to deal with them.
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The problem is that they are NOT YOUR eBooks. You only buy a license to READ that eBook. You have not purchased a license to strip DRM, change covers, change metadata or change print on the pages.
Of course, you can do all of that since there are no real penalties SO FAR.
Frankly, there will probably never be penalties since technology is soon going to make all this impossible. Just as software was changed from easily stolen BASIC and COBOL code and other easily readable and changeable code to machine code, eBooks can be changed in the same way.
Trying to alter machine coded eBooks would destroy them. I believe machine coded eBooks will be with us next fall when the new Amazon eReaders are introduced. They well may be part of a new eBook business model of renting eBooks with a monthly fee rather than buying them. That is the present model of the video market which has put an end to large chains like Blockbusters which used to sell the videos into now paying a monthly fee to Netflix and / or Amazon to stream the videos.
Some advantages of machine coded eBooks is that they occupy much less space, they can be transferred faster over the internet, they can be indexed at speeds which will dwarf present slow indexing and they will draw much less power from batteries.