You only own the ebook till your credit card expires?

[Liar]

Books are not a bundle of paper. A book is the story the author is telling, or the knowledge he's trying to pass on, in the case of non-fiction. An immaterial thing. Intellectual Property. You buy access to said IP. How long this access is legally valid is between you and the access provider.

The book can be ink on flattened trees held together with the skin of a cow, a 60 days DRM-protected file, or read out loud one time only by eunuchs while concubines perform fellatio and feed you Kobe beef.

It remains a book.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Books are not a bundle of paper. A book is the story the author is telling, or the knowledge he's trying to pass on, in the case of non-fiction. An immaterial thing. Intellectual Property. You buy access to said IP. How long this access is legally valid is between you and the access provider.

The book can be ink on flattened trees held together with the skin of a cow, a 60 days DRM-protected file, or read out loud one time only by eunuchs while concubines perform fellatio and feed you Kobe beef.

It remains a book.

Well said.

 

[jeninflorida]

Books are not a bundle of paper. A book is the story the author is telling, or the knowledge he's trying to pass on, in the case of non-fiction. An immaterial thing. Intellectual Property. You buy access to said IP. How long this access is legally valid is between you and the access provider.

The book can be ink on flattened trees held together with the skin of a cow, a 60 days DRM-protected file, or read out loud one time only by eunuchs while concubines perform fellatio and feed you Kobe beef.

It remains a book.

well true, but that's kosher Kobe beef, right?

 

[Sean Renaud]

well true, but that's kosher Kobe beef, right?

No bitch go back and answer my question. NOW.

 

[Ishmael]

Books are not a bundle of paper. A book is the story the author is telling, or the knowledge he's trying to pass on, in the case of non-fiction. An immaterial thing. Intellectual Property. You buy access to said IP. How long this access is legally valid is between you and the access provider.

The book can be ink on flattened trees held together with the skin of a cow, a 60 days DRM-protected file, or read out loud one time only by eunuchs while concubines perform fellatio and feed you Kobe beef.

It remains a book.

Soooo, what's your point?

Ishmael

 

[imalickin]

Words are not enough to point out the stupidity of this post....

He's drunk, what would you expect?

 

[imalickin]

Why should you own it forever? What law is there for this? The store isn't coming back and taking it mind you, they are simply coming up with a more efficient model where they only lease it to you for a set period of time.

Okay, he's had one too many even for a socialist this is too stupid to reply to.

 

[Liar]

Soooo, what's your point?

Ishmael

That an e-book is what it is, not what the buyer wishes it would be. If she wants one that has a more permanent durability, she should look up what she's buying before she buys it.

There were posts up-thread hinting at that e-books is a scheme to squeeze money out of consumers without any cost related. If that was true, all e-books should be free. But books are immaterial and immaterial products also have value and cost related to them. E-books are already, most of the time, considerably cheaper than a hardcopy. To expect them to work the same way as a hardcopy is naive.

 

[Liar]

Okay, he's had one too many even for a socialist this is too stupid to reply to.

Except of course his is the capitalist perspective, and 100% correct.

Not his problem if you fail to see that.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Okay, he's had one too many even for a socialist this is too stupid to reply to.

What you mean is you don't have an answer for it.

 

[slave_]

It happened. litfan used his bank credit/debit card for his Nook on iPad. He got a new card, of course, same number but different CV on the back.

His Nook is wiped clean. Free and paid books. Thank goodness he only bought one book. He uses his Kindle a hell of a lot more so this is not a big deal, but what if he bought tons of books on Nook?

Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

 

[slave_]

Update: hmmm, good thing happened, litfan logged on to his online account on Barnes and Noble and was able to access his order history. He then was able to redownload his books.

I wonder why they cleard his Nook in the first place being that he was able to put them back on. Weird, but good.