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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
One obvious "resell" option for ebooks would be to download them to a flash drive or memory card, and sell that with "the original" books on it.
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And how would the buyer read the book if it's drm'ed?
And we are back at the physical medium issue anyway.
When people on the
dark side argue that ebooks should be priced
close to print because content is all that matters, this thread should be used to remind them that a
physical book comes not only with the content but with inherent rights that simply do not exist in ebooks and those rights are worth a lot for me and again I bet lots of others. Those rights, not only the paper and the package
And again that's why I am making an issue of this "license" vs "sell"
We can quibble about terms - sale vs license - and their legal definitions, but whatever their status when you pay money for an ebook you get
considerable less rights-wise than for a paper book and that's the crux of the issue, not semantics...