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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The issue isn't inventory shortage of a physical book to the retailer. It's the idea that once you have an unprotected electronic copy, you can then copy and share the book with others, and the seller loses revenue because those folks grab your free copy rather than buying one of their own.
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I think you're talking about two different things here. In this paragraph, you're talking about the outcome of breaking DRM, and
sharing files. When we started this bit of the conversation, we were talking about the ethics of
acquiring digital copies of works already purchased in paper form. While I agree that these two activities are related, I don't believe the ethics are the same. As I've posted elsewhere, I can envision a "book swap club" that only allows its members to download files for books they can provide evidence that they own in paper. There is presently a club that does this for vision impaired readers. Their activities are both ethical and legal under current US copyright law.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I've been looking at a product called Readerware.
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I have Readerware -- that's how I got my barcode reader. Then I moved, and I haven't had a chance to finish inventorying my collection. I'm trying to decide at this point if I want my primary database to be on Readerware, and backup to Librarything, or the other way around.