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Originally Posted by harryE123
Oh is it? Let me first break the news to you that almost all suckers don't feel like ones. The publishing houses will love you however for this mentality and throw a red carpet for you much like the film industry for the suckers who have triple bought films in vhs/dvd/blue ray. Btw, you totally missed my point too...If you don't want the pbook then decline it, but it's ridiculous if someone wants to have a printed book to have to pay almost DOUBLE to get the ebook too which is actually costing close to zip to the publishing house, just so they can have some mobility and lesser weight in their travel bags. This is the definition of a rip off. People paying double for what they already own. Enjoy your type of thinking, like the morons who bought triple drm'ed mp3s way back when that they couldn't even play in their own home stereos...
Not really, I have a lot of non copyrighted, or expired cp books, and I have infringed copyright on many of them as the vast majority of video and music and now book reading public is doing and will keep doing until they offer a fair deal. That's how change is always brought upon. Of course I still support and buy the books I want printed and I buy a lot of them so most of the books I have "infringed" copyright on I already have in printed format. WHY IS IT ILLEGAL FOR ME TO OWN A .PDF I DID NOT PURCHASE OF A BOOK I ALREADY HAVE IN PRINT, I ALREADY HAVE THE CONTENT, I HAVE PAID FOR THE CONTENT. But that's what they are essentially saying in their twisted logic...
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I don't pay "double" for my ebooks. I always pay less (and sometimes a good amount less) than the pbook.
As for the ebook costing zip to the publishing house, you do realize that a good majority of the money you spend on a book goes to royalties to the author, and the publisher's fees, not the actualy cost of printing?
You are more than welcome to create your own ebook copy from a pbook, as long as you don't distribute it, as far as I understand.
And following your logic, if you have a book in hardcover you should be able to get the paperback for free. You don't think there aren't costs associated with making an ebook?