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Originally Posted by HarryT
IMHO, No. That's an equivalent situation to one in which you've bought, say, a paperback version of a book, but are no longer able to read it. Perhaps you lost it, or dropped it in the bath. Are you entitled to a free (or even discounted) replacement? I think most people would say "no".
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Well, I didn't lose my Rocketbook or drop it in the bath, and in fact- I have an identical unit handy. The books' won't run on it because of DRM. Yes, I think I am entitled to a free replacement. If I buy a book, say, from ereader for my palm, and my palm wears out, I can still read the book on another palmpilot.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Certainly it is. Fair use law, from what I've read, allows you to make a backup of your copy of the book. If you've downloaded it, it's not your copy is it - it's somebody else's. It's like asking if you scratch a CD that you've bought, can you go out and legally copy somebody else's unscratched copy. The answer is clearly, no, you can't.
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If the 2 copies are identical, then there IS no difference, so who cares?
I think if your approach to e-book marketing is followed, there won't be much of a market for e-books. If publishers want me to pay 2 times for the same content, or won't replace my copies of e-books when their dopey DRM software flakes out and destroys the value of what I bought, well, I won't be buying e-books. I don't think many readers would. But that won't stop me from buying e-book readers and making my own content, and I doubt it will stop book piracy.
I look at ereader, where I have bought thousands of dollars of e-books. Why? Well, convenience mainly- their DRM is easy to deal with (credit card number based) and is easily updated to a different card number, the book is not locked to only 1 device, and they make shopping and retrieval of my purchases extremely easy. They make their customers happy, and the shopping/reading experience enjoyable. And, in many of their books, the prices are reasonable. And if I lose my copy of an ebook, it's easy to download it again. This is what reading ebooks should be like.
Building a strong business usually isn't possible if you treat your customers poorly........