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Originally Posted by GeoffR
Actually, under some consumer laws ( in New Zealand at least), any limitations on a sale should be shown in a bold, clear and compelling way which cannot be easily overlooked.
If the message the consumer gets when making the purchase is that they are buying the ebook, then it is not enough for the seller to simply point to the terms and conditions where it says that they are actually only buying a licence to read the book. |
Trouble is, Geoff, that you then get into all sorts of almost philosophical questions about what it is that you actually are buying. An ebook is intangible, so what does it mean to say that you're "buying an ebook"? What specifically are you buying? The only reasonable answer, it seems to me, is that you're buying a set of rights that define what you can do with a file on your reading device. Isn't that just what a licence is?