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Originally Posted by rkomar
It probably has more to do with not actually being able to buy an ebook, but rather buying a license to be able to access the data through software, which makes it more of a service. If they wanted to have them classed as books, they would probably have to give up the whole "we're selling you a license" deal, which I doubt they want to do.
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If the e-book was sold in physical form, say on a CD, (and this was tried) you would still only have a license to read it and forbidden to do more copying than required to do that. Buying a physical book in paper gives no right to copy it.