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Originally Posted by rlauzon
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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I'm sorry, but you are incorrect.
You can indeed do whatever you wish with the physical book, yes. Just as you can do whatever you wish with the e-Book file that you've downloaded. But in both cases the law places restrictions on what you can do with the "intellectual property" contained within the book or the file. Eg, when I open a book I have on my desk at the moment the first page says:
All rights reserved. No part of the contents of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the written permission of the publisher.
That's all that DRM is doing - preventing you from reproducing or transmitting the contents of the eBook to a third party. It's no different.
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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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Certainly, I agree. But if you had an investment in MobiPocket books you would presumably purchase a device which supported that format.
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History has shown that closed, proprietary formats are doomed to fail.
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Such as what, for example?