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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's up to the publisher to determine if they wish to provide a mechanism to transfer the licence to somebody else or not. Doesn't affect the principle that with both paper books and eBooks you're just "buying" the medium, not the contents.
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Then we are so lucky that the publishers cannot stop the sale of used books. The studios tried to stop the selling of used cd's and it did not work, maybe the publishers would have better luck
Also since the principle is the same, well if you buy a book from Borders and you lose it, you cannot go to the store and ask for another one, so why are we allowed to redownload our bought ebooks if we lose the file. In the spirit of the above quote, you should suggest to all the ebook sellers to allow buyers only one download, and if they lose the file or the pc breaks down, tough luck; after all you lose the print book, that's that
Trying to force analogies between ebooks and print books is very misguided in my opinion; the better way is to acknowledge the differences, and adjust to them. Not easy I agree, so no wonder quite a lot of publishers and authors want ebooks to go away.