07-24-2014, 05:07 AM | #31 |
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Isn't reselling of ebooks (with DRM control), effectively a case of limited time rental of ebooks? Effectively I'd be paying (say) £2 for the rental of an ebook, with a £10 deposit on it. I get the deposit back when I decide I no longer want the book.
This differs (I guess), in that it doesn't take in to account demand for the book. I.e. in second hand sales someone has to want the book I'm selling. I think that with DRM support this would be fairly easy to do. For book sellers it actually gives a reasonable explanation for why they add DRM in the first place, too. Also, as noted, it would be technically easy to have a scheme where the merchant, publisher and author get a cut of the second hand book sale, which has to be a plus. |
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It's similar in that sense, but not similar in the sense that a CD is a physical product which degrades - it gets scratched, etc. There are reasons to prefer to prefer a new CD to a second-hand one. There is no reason to prefer a new ebook to a "used" one.
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07-24-2014, 05:48 AM | #34 |
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No. Rental has a clear meaning in the physical world. This is a distinct licensing arraignment with it's own rights and terms, and it cannot be equated to buying or renting a physical item. Nor should it be. It's a different thing with different properties and different concerns.
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New ebook sellers would take on a gate-keeping function, sort of like the BPHs do now. Rather than filtering what gets published, they'd help ensure people that what it says on the box is what's really inside the package. OMG. DRM might serve to protect readers from unwanted content changes! What a horrible sleeping-with-the-enemy thought!* The used book model proposed above is interesting. Worthy of some further thought and discussion, I think. ApK * Actually, digital signatures would work better for that purpose and not restrict my use in the process. Whew...that was a close one.... Last edited by ApK; 07-24-2014 at 08:07 AM. |
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Unless some kind of online database of all books sold and current ownership is produced (Or you get a physical owner tag of some kind like with a CD) there is nothing to stop 1 person buying an ebook then undercutting the publisher and selling the used ebook a few hundred thousand times. |
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only one copy available for sale at a time. The same copy could be sold (serially) multiple times...
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ApK *not as easily, quickly and cheaply as purely digital goods like ebooks or downloadable music, but on the spectrum, far closer to those, than to the effort, time, and cost of duplicating, say, a paper book. |
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A ruling by a Dutch judge does NOT change laws in other nations. There may be little copyright protection in Uzbekistan but lots of protections and penalties in the USA.
Each citizen of each nation, state or provence is governed by the laws of his jurisdiction, ONLY. However, the internationality of the Internet does create lots of potential conflicts. Plus, all of us are governed by author, publisher and retailer agreements implied or explicit. Violate Amazon's customer agreement, and your account could be closed. Last edited by sirmaru; 07-24-2014 at 02:44 PM. |
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Ebooks deteriorate in the sense that newer editions will have fewer errors.
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