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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
No, they're not fooling themselves. Expecting readers to recognize/honor a distinction that strips them of the right to do things they've ALWAYS done with books simply because of esoteric semantics (regardless of how legally relevant those semantics may appear to be) and a medium-shift is where the foolishness lies. That's an example of a failure waiting to happen.
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Sorry, but I strongly disagree with you. The difference between a printed book and an ebook is not "esoteric semantics". It is a FACT - whether people like it or not - that they are different products. A digital product is not the same thing as a physical one, and cannot be treated as such, for the simple reason that copyright law gets involved when you make copies of it. Most people do not make
copies of their printed books and give those copies to their friends, but that is precisely what some people seem to think that they can do with ebooks.