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Originally Posted by imabuddha
Except for the (crucially important) difference that the furniture store would be missing a chair, while the publisher would still have the ebook. This is why it's copyright infringement and not theft.
I'm not advocating copyright infringement, just pointing out that the two things are not equivalent.
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The publisher has the book's "blueprint" just as the manufacturer has the chair's "blueprint". The furniture maker can make a duplicate copy of the chair, just as the publisher can make a duplicate copy of the book.