[jabberwock_11]

It seems to me that eBooks are a special kind of monster. I was trying to approach the situation as I would a video game rather than the way I would look at the same situation with a pbook. You would not think that making copies of a video game is legal, so the same can be said of an eBook, but you can sell the whole video game because you do not keep the disc needed to play the game once it is sold (unless you make an illegal copy). The same is not so of an eBook, because you usually do keep a copy or are easily able to redownload a copy at no cost.

The question for publishers becomes how do you allow readers pass on an eBook to someone else who is interested without being able to keep a copy or get new copies at zero cost? Obviously eBooks can not be looked at in the same way as pbooks, but they are still going to be compared...the use of multiple registered devices for eBooks to be downloaded onto seems to be the only logical solution, but it is still not perfect.

Does anyone have any suggestions that do not involve blatantly disregarding the fact that eBooks are not the same creatures as pbooks and can not be dealt with in the same manner?

I ask because I am struggling with the whole idea and go back and forth on the morals of the situation on an almost daily basis...