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Originally Posted by Format C:
It is, indeed.
Actually a paper book has more "material value" than a file.
The pbook is a real thing, an electronic copy of it it's just an ephymereal recording of a concept.
What I mean is: while in paper and ink world it is correct to think about "copies" (like in copies sold, remainder copies, illegal photo-copies), it isn't so in the digital world, where the same idea of "copy" has no meaning (e.g., when a file is open in MS word, at least two different copies are born from the blue nowhere: the file on disk, a second temporary file, and a copy in RAM, which in turn can be copied in the swap and in the hybernate file... Are they "illegal copies", according to DCMCA?).
To develop a real efficient business model for digital content, we must be able to think different.
And to think about access to content rather than copies bought is a big step forward.
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You don't think the ink on the paper book's pages is near-perfectly analogous to the orderly magnetic/electric distortion that represents the specific content of the eBook on your disc/DVD/other device?
I don't really see a meaningful difference myself... or, rather, not an inherent one. Only a difference in how each can be handled/used.
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