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Originally Posted by Shaggy
That's standard copyright law, it has nothing to do with digital vs physical. You can not distribute copies, it doesn't matter if they are physical copies or digital copies.
As Elfwreck says, the medium doesn't matter.
However, this discussion has nothing to do with distributing copies of eBooks. We're talking about selling the original, which should be legal. Again, the medium doesn't matter.
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And, assuming your reader doesn't have internet access, you get the book onto your reader HOW? By
copying it from your computer?
That's how mine works!
The only way I can see to make an ebook analogous to a pbook would be to deploy some sort of technology that would erase the original once a successful copy operation is accomplished, thus allowing only one copy of the ebook to be in the possession of the buyer. That, by the way, would be doable if the only way to download and load a book onto the reader would be to use the manufacturer’s library software. But then some hacker would find a way to circumvent that and the pirates would be off again!