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Originally Posted by mdp
My point is that it would be a good idea if you would.
You are not entitled to a DVD version only because you purchased the VHS, because the manufactured medium has an important cost. But given that the cost of producing a file is in a way negligible (`copy` / `cp` / `cat`...), in another marginal (the electronic version is part of the preproduction of the printed material, one download server/service shared by all customers may have a dwarfed cost with respect to the production of physical media), it may make sense that with the purchase of a physical copy you also get rights for a digital one.
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The literal definition of copyright is the right to copy. Sure it would be nice if publishers bundled ebooks with hard copies of the books, some publishers do. I know some who think that if you pay for a book, then you have the right to convert it to whatever format you want. Legally you don't, but if you want to scan it for your own use, it's very, very unlikely anyone is going to try to stop you, just like you can likely print any ebook that you might own. Technically, it violates copyright, but as long as it's for your personal use, no one is coming after you besides it's likely cheaper to buy the book used.
For a while, it was popular to bundle the blu-ray, the DVD and a code to stream a digital version of movies. I suspect the streaming service it was associate with went belly up.
My question to you is how much extra would you be willing to pay for a paper/ebook bundle?