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Originally Posted by braver
I believe that as owners of paper books, we have every right to get the Kindle versions for free or only a nominal fee
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...this is not a 'right'.
Are you new to being an early adopter? This is the same it is with every new technology (as another post pointed out). You can't turn in all your VHS tapes for brand new DVDs or digital files. That's not the way business works. Companies don't make money giving away new formats -- then where's the incentive for continuing to invent and evolve?
In the future,
perhaps publishers will offer the ebook free for download with purchase of, say, a hardcover. This type of model has been around since the early 90s when O'Reilly (iirc) used to have pdf versions of the purchased book on a cd on the back cover. But to think that the publishers somehow owe you something? I'm just baffled by this.