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Originally Posted by HarryT
Not at all - there are many things that you buy licences for that cannot be re-sold. A lot of computer software, for example, has non-transferrable licences.
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Re-read what you wrote. You actually agreed with me.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Software and eBooks have a great deal in common, in fact; in both cases you are buying a licence to use the product - all that you "own" is the physical medium on which the software is supplied.
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Nicely confused, but untrue.
When I buy a pBook, I am not buying a license. The only rights that the author has after I have purchased a pBook is copyright - which does not control what I do with the book after the purchase.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
But buy in a format such as, say, MobiPocket, and you can read on a huge range of different devices.
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I can't read it on my Zaurus SL-C760. I can't read it on my Archos 504. A "huge range of devices" is not "all devices".
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No reason to suppose that a time will come in the foreseeable future when you'll no longer be able to obtain a MobiPocket Reader.
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History has shown that closed, proprietary formats are doomed to fail.
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I agree that if you buy in a format that's only used by a single manufacturer, your options are much more limited. But that's a decision that you have to make, as an informed purchaser.
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Which is why I don't pay money to license an eBook - and why most of those sites do not SELL eBooks.