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Old 05-13-2014, 02:16 PM   #118
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Originally Posted by ApK View Post
So no downloads of replacement copies, no web access, no instant delivery, no changing fonts...all properties of the physical book.
I disagree with all of those stances...with the exception being that if you transfer ownership, you should no longer get replacement copies - because doing so means it's no longer yours to replace.

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Originally Posted by ApK
What's the root pathological compulsion people have to equate p-books and ebooks, when their properties are so vastly different?
Probably about equivalent to your apparent compulsion to misread my intentions on this, which I clarified in the same post. I want people to be able to treat ebooks that use this license the same way everyone currently can treat physical books, in terms of transferring ownership, loaning, and so on. I despise the current model in which, if I spend thousands of dollars on an ebook library and then die in a car accident, that library legally "evaporates" and nobody else gets to read them. That's tilted far too heavily in favor of corporations, and readers should have more rights than that. When I started writing my own book, it seemed hypocritical of me to use a license that I disagree with so fundamentally, so I'm working on making a different license.

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Originally Posted by ApK
You say you're "working on it" like you're in a laboratory trying to come up with magic ebook paper, or you're busying lobby congress to come up with radical new laws to enable this.
Working on the wording of the license, and I've got the O'Reilly page bookmarked as a model I may want to use.

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Of course maybe you mean that you're working on terms that don't give the whole store away and want to protect your rights?
Exactly.

I will give respect to Disney on the whole "license vs. own" issue, in that they have a disc replacement program for their DVDs and Blu-rays. It makes sense; you bought it, you registered it with their Magic Code, so they know you own it. Since you bought a license, they'll replace a damaged disc. Yes, there's a fee attached, but last time I checked, it was a reasonable one. That's a decent way of letting the license work for the customer.
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