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Originally Posted by HarryT
My understanding (which may of course be wrong) is that it's a genuinely destructive scan: they cut the spine off and then run the pages through a sheet feeder.
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So it is not in fact a legal requirement at all?
They can of course send you the stack of paper, optionally stitched back together.
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I'm really not at all sure you're right about that. If you create a copy, it has to fall under the terms of "Fair Use", and "I want an ebook" doesn't count. You said yourself earlier in the thread that you're not allowed to photocopy your books. How is scanning them any different?
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I said that in a sarcastic manner, I apologize if you didn't catch that.
Disregarding Fair Use both photocopying your book and ripping a cd are copyright infringement.
And media creators love to argue against Fair Use -- it denies them the ability to sell you the same product twice.
It is a useless split -- but apparently the accepted one.
I expect the very first court case to prove beyond dispute that there is no difference.