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Originally Posted by pwalker8
An ebook very much has a physical component. It may be bits and bytes, but it's real. I can read it and manipulate it. That collection of bits and bytes is what I purchased.
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"Bits and bytes" are data - they are not physical objects. They can be copied to a physical medium, either as words on a printed page, or as magnetic fields on a hard disk, but they themselves have no physical existence. There's nothing physical to own with an ebook.
Are you saying that, in your opinion, you have not in fact purchased a licence, despite the bookstore telling you otherwise?