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Originally Posted by gouzos
So you mean to tell me that the whole matter is that you have to lend it out one at a time but many downloaders can read it at the same time. Do you think this is really so important?
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It's very important to the author and publishers. It's about getting paid for however many copies that are available.
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Originally Posted by gouzos
If it is a fairly popular book you would have to wait maybe a week before you got to read it!
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Have you ever used a library before? That's a quite common condition on popular books. They buy multiple copies and even then the wait can be weeks. It's like Netflix for books.
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Originally Posted by gouzos
Also, no it is not like the library making infinite copies. The reason is that like libraries, filesharing gives you access to the content only. Not the book own.
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When filesharing the ebook, there's NO DIFFERENCE. A copy of an ebook is the same as an ebook. Yes, it's not the same as a physical book, but that's not the issue. Ebook copying: you get the whole thing. Physical copying: you get the whole thing.
You seem to have an idea that an ebook is some sort of 'lesser creature' to a physical book. That authors only have rights to sell physical things, but not digital things.