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Originally Posted by neilmarr
You're spot on, Blue. But bear in mind that point-of-sale of an ebook IS the location of your download device.
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Yeah, I know it isn't the retailers fault. Any retailer that would want to give up a chunk of sales like that voluntarily would be a something rhyming with boron.
Actually, with the point of sale thing it isn't. Because when you buy it, the book has to come from somewhere. It doesn't magically materialise out of thin air via quantum entanglement or something.
That is, you have to download it from a server. That server is theirs, not in the possession of the buyer, on in their house. So the junk about the sale is where *you* are is complete and utter bullcrap, when talking about network technology (or physics). That is, it is just legal sophistry with no basis in actual reality.
If the material is where you are before you bought it, you'd have no need at all to buy it, because you'd have it already. That is rather obvious.