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Originally Posted by gouzos
So what if they don't delete it? It's not an actual book anyway.
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Well, that's part of the problem right there. You don't think of it as an "actual" book, so it's no wonder you don't mind giving an author "less" than what he'd get for an "actual" book. Which in turn is why many authors are reluctant to get into ebooks.
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Originally Posted by gouzos
What you are saying would be like forbidding loaning books to friends or ever buying a book and destroying it after you read it.
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Either you're being deliberately silly or you're not understand the analogy at all. I'm not saying either of those things. If you think *loaning* books to friends in RL is okay, then the equivalent is *loaning* an ebook to a friend. And to do that, while they have*your* file, *your* copy must be deleted. Otherwise, it's just like *copying* the real book before you loan it to a friend... and not a photocopy, but a whole reproduction of the cover, binding, etc.
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Originally Posted by gouzos
That's actually the problem. Books(content) continue to be considered by the law be just like books(objects) but they are not. In this age they will have to be considered different entities there will have to be new ways to reap benefits once the distinction has been made.
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The law isn't clear. Many authors and publishers would of course *like* them to be treated just like books, because they know how to make money that way. They are less sure how to make money if ebooks are freely copied and redistributed by anyone.