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Originally Posted by taustin
I have no objections to renting books, movies, or whatever. What I do object to is paying the (more or less) same price as buying it outright in a different format. Which is the case with ebooks.
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What do you mean by "buying it outright"?
When you buy an ebook you are buying a licence, which grants you a certain set of rights.
When you buy a paper book, you are also buying a certain set of rights. You "own" the ink and paper; you have only a very limited set of rights to the content of the book. You cannot, for example, hold what copyright law calls a "public performance" of the work (ie read it out loud in a place where the general public can hear it).