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Originally Posted by Shaggy
No. Your friend may have a right to the digital version, but you are not authorized to distribute that material. If you gave your digital copy to your friend you would be committing copyright infringement, even though your friend is allowed to digitize their own version.
Further, while you are not allowed to give your digital copy to your friend, it's probably true that your friend can hire you to digitize his copy of the printed book. Even though the end result is exactly the same, this time it is probably legal.
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The 'hiring to do a digital version' is an interesting concept. This would mean that one could create an online forum where people who have digitized a book would offer to do the same work for others. Somebody could mail the book to that person and that person would digitize it for them. Since they have already digitized that same book they really only copy the digital version they already have and email it to the customer. The price could be the cost of mailing the book back. Strictly speaking that would require mailing the book to the digitizer and then he would mail it back. In the US media mail isn't that expensive and thus for a few bucks this could work. Perhaps some don't want the book back.
I guess you will still get sued for it.