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Originally Posted by Katti's Cat
When is copying unlawful - if I finish a pBook I borrow it to a friend. That's ok, isn't it. When I finish an eBook and send it to friend it's not? Even though I paid the same amount for it? Hmm. Still confused.
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That's how I thought, but we have to realize that we don't buy ebooks. We don't own ebooks. We buy a license to read them. We borrow ebooks.
And it's wrong to lend something you borrowed, right?
On the other hand, when someone "pirates" an ebook, he's not stealing an ebook. He's just reading without a licence. Diferent kind of illegality.
And because we don't own the ebooks, just licence them, we shouldn't have to pay for them as much (or more) as pbooks. A licence to read should be much cheaper than buying and owning a book.