Unlike CDs, you can't rip a book and carry it's content around on a portable device like an iPod. If publishers want to get the ebook Market up and running, they need to give people access to an epub or some other industry standard version of the book they've bought either by providing the file on physical media such as a cd rom with the book or by providing a download code (perhaps that only works a limited number of times)
I think a lot more people would buy into the idea of being able to have a book on their shelf & in their mobile device.
I am most definitely not paying the same price again for a substandard ebook version of a novel!!
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An ebook should come free with a physical book
Unlike CDs, you can't rip a book and carry it's content around on a portable device like an iPod. If publishers want to get the ebook Market up and running, they need to give people access to an epub or some other industry standard version of the book they've bought either by providing the file on physical media such as a cd rom with the book or by providing a download code (perhaps that only works a limited number of times)
I think a lot more people would buy into the idea of being able to have a book on their shelf & in their mobile device.
I am most definitely not paying the same price again for a substandard ebook version of a novel!!