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Originally Posted by HarryT
One could equally ask "why should it not"? If you build a house, and let it out to tenants, should those tenants stop paying rent when you die? A reasonable person would say "no"; your descendants inherit the house and carry on receiving the rent money.
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That anology is faulty...
Your descendants must still pay for the house, one way or the other. There is maintanance, taxes, etc... Also, I don't rent the book. And thirdly, there is only one house to sell. While a book is a, what should I call it... non-material thing. Only once I buy a book, it becomes an object. So, the same non-material thing is sold over and over and over.
What you describe is buying a book, and renting it out to other people. And those other people will have to keep paying rent for that book even if I die and that book will become my descendant's property.