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Originally Posted by HarryT
No big deal. I've been buying commercial ebooks since the late 1990s, and some of those books have changed their format 3 or 4 times in that period. There have always been format conversion tools around, and I'm sure there always will be.
I strongly suspect that it's a complete non-issue for most people. Very few people collect books: most people buy them, read them, then throw them away.
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But this is in the context of selling the original as a used ebook and giving up the license to it. If people can keep illicit copies under Sony's scheme, then I don't expect it to last very long.