Trust me, this is my feeling (crappy licensing, no transfers) with iTunes music and media, iBooks, ebooks, audio books, electronic magazine subscriptions, etc.
This stuff is cheaper than ever for publishers to disseminate and yet we have less ownership of the product that we "buy." My dad probably still has 200 National Geographic magazines that he can still read. My Popular Science magazines on my iPad regularly "disappear" when I most want to read them, requiring tech support just to read what I "own."
My point is just that if you have a license for one book, owning ANOTHER book shouldn't kill the license for the first book.
Steve Hullfish
contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
On Jul 28, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Shirley Gutierrez <guanacaa@aol.com> wrote:
> To which I add that you can loan your physical book or give it away, and no publisher has anything to say about it. And we want people without lots of discretionary income to still be able to read, whether it's to educate themselves generally or improve themselves professionally.
>
> Downloaded e-
> books are not owned by the downloader. It's a license, just like any
> software. This a big bone of contention for readers between REAL
> books (that you can physically own) and e-books, which are just files
> on an e-reader. It's a major change in the way we read books and many
> are not happy about it.
> In a hundred years when your e-reader can no longer function
> (actually, I'm sure it will be sooner), your e-books will be useless.
> In a hundred years, your ACTUAL book will continue to be readable.
> And no publisher will be able to take it away from you.
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