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Originally Posted by Bob T
Alrighty...
Hmmmm...most all of us that read have supported free sharing of paper books for years...
One book gets bought at Christmas and gets passed through the entire family...
Then the book gets loaned to a friend who maybe shares it with his family...
Or, as mentioned above, a library buys it and 1000s read it...
So really, isn't the difference between paper books and ebooks just a matter of scale?
Isn't the original purchaser allowed to share with as many friends and family as he cares to?
(Sure, you could share an ebook and still keep a copy, but for the most part, once it is read, you're done with it).
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They are not exactly equivalent because the ebook can be copied whereas for the paper book there is only one physical copy so it can't be used by two(or more) people at the same time.