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Originally Posted by mdp
My point is that it would be a good idea if you would.
You are not entitled to a DVD version only because you purchased the VHS, because the manufactured medium has an important cost. But given that the cost of producing a file is in a way negligible (`copy` / `cp` / `cat`...), in another marginal (the electronic version is part of the preproduction of the printed material, one download server/service shared by all customers may have a dwarfed cost with respect to the production of physical media), it may make sense that with the purchase of a physical copy you also get rights for a digital one.
This would have collateral good effects:
-- preserving the role of shops offering direct access to the physical media;
-- expanding freedom in the options of purchase;
-- solving the alternative "something I want on the shelves or something I can more easily study" - as it is for some of us;
-- granting more anonymity - which to some of us is inalienable from dignity - with the ability to pay also for your electronic version through cash - anonymous credit cars are harder to obtain;
and surely more.
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The medium for eBooks also has a cost. It does cost to covert the electronic file or scan/OCR. It would also put a lot of eBook shops out of business.