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Old 10-02-2009, 05:47 AM   #117
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Originally Posted by braver View Post
As was explained several times already, this is a silly comparison (just returning your term).

(1) you did not buy your "floppies with content" on Amazon
(2) you did not buy your 8-track on Amazon
(3) different physical carriers cost money to make, as opposed to a software file
(4) Amazon knows exactly what you own on paper, and offers you digital upgrade already. On the web, not ebook yet -- but there's no difference why not.

Give up silly comparisons of ebook/pbook dichotomy to 8-track/CD! It doesn't work, doesn't make sense, and doesn't translate, and you know better.

What's silly is this insistence that you are owed/entitled to a new product just cause you bought an old one. That's what needs to be "given up" - your thinking is simply wrong.
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