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Originally Posted by ChrisAllenFiz
The more people who speak out about these things, the less likely it is that individuals will be charged. Fair Use should be "fair", I will NOT buy a book twice or be forced to read it in a way that inconveniences me for the sake of staying on the right side of a law that makes no sense.
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I agree Chris. I do buy every book that I convert and sometime I buy a book more than once - I'll have it in a paper format and I'll buy it again some years later in an electronic format and ditch the paper version mainly to recover available bookshelf space.
Without ebooks, I would have no room to turn around, let alone add more books.
I don't think a publisher would be able to prove any damages from copying your own books so that you can read them on another platform. Yes, the
actus reus vis-a-vis the DMCA is there, but there is no
mens rea of harm. As far as I can see, the only loser in all this is Sony, by not being able to sell me a native BBeB format. To tell the truth, if they offer it in the connect store and for a true market price, I'll buy directly from them anyway to save myself the effort of converting and reformatting.