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Ben Thornton · 02-02-2010, 01:09 PM

What I meant was not whether the publisher could do it, but whether a book seller could do it - i.e. adding the digital copy to the original paper book - without requiring the copyright holder's permission to do so.

02-02-2010, 01:09 PM	#4
Ben Thornton Guru Posts: 900 Karma: 779635 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: UK Device: Kindle 3, iPad 2 (but not for e-books)	What I meant was not whether the publisher could do it, but whether a book seller could do it - i.e. adding the digital copy to the original paper book - without requiring the copyright holder's permission to do so.