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Originally Posted by SpiderMatt
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So if it's OK to strip DRM or format-shift books that came without DRM, why is it ridiculous to request Amazon make it easier/cheaper to get digital copies with physical books? What differentiates it from DVDs that now come with a "Digital Copy" inside? I understand the issue with past books. Amazon can't tell if you still have the book just like iTunes can't tell if you own any given CD. And Amazon couldn't just give the digital copies away for free without losing money on bandwidth and the cost of any effort that went into making the ebook. So I think the "nominal fee" suggestion was reasonable and the accusations of a sense of entitlement are off the mark. If you're going to make that accusation, then why are you entitled to the right to convert your own ebooks into different formats? Why are you entitled to scan your own physical books and make ebooks out of them?
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A couple of points here.
1. You are free to do whatever you want with your copy of any media as long as it's for personal use. That has been established.
2. You get what you pay for. If you purchase a paperback book, that's what you get. If you purchase a DRM'd Epub ebook that's what you get. If you purchase a combination of paper book + ebook that's what you get.
3. If you are willing to pay for a different version/media of a book you already own, no problem.
4. When you think you are entitled to a free ebook for a past purchase of a paper book you are mistaken.
as far as this thread, the op did mention paying a "nominal" fee for the ability to get an ebook for a pbook that had been purchased in the past, but then goes on to imply that it should be free or practically free and that Amazon (or publishers) should be forced to make this available to him. This is totally presumptuous on his part and not something that is ever going to happen on a mass scale for the reasons detailed in the posts above.