Re: NY Times Ethicist Condones Ripping Off E-books

I completely agree with what Chris said.

I have to say, though, I don't need to see the whole thing for free before I
buy.  A brief sample is enough for me.  What I will resent is if I buy in
one format but am forbidden from transferring it to a new format.
Especially because I believe that editors, proofreaders, etc. etc. will add
enough value that buying the new format would be better.

e.g., if I were technologically able to easily scan a p-book into e-format,
or if my computer could easily read it into an audiofile, I'm sure that
professional quality would still be better.  I would probably pay to get
that professional quality, but I would resent not being able to choose
between homemade and professional.

My likelihood of buying in a second format increases if there are special
features: updates for reference books, additional visuals for nonfiction,
outtakes from a novel, or an extra forward, or a "making of" timeline that
showed how much work went into creating the book, or the original book
proposal, or alternate cover art sketches, a coupon allowing me to buy an
advance "review" copy of the next book in the series, or something.

It's like dvds.  Right now, I can record a movie or tv show in HD when it is
broadcast, save it to a hard drive, even burn it to a dvd if I want for
later viewing.  But I have never made a homemade dvd, and I purchase lots of
dvds.  Why?  Well, I like the stylish menus on a dvd, I like the bonus
features, I like being able to switch languages (not that I understand the
other languages but it is fun to hear them), etc.

I'm sure book publishers can come up with ways to tempt readers into buying
multiple formats, even if we are allowed to make our own homemade versions .

Beth

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Robotech_Master <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Marion Gropen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> When consumers see the rights they've come to take for granted being
> taken away from them, they feel justified in breaking the law to
> exercise the rights they feel they are supposed to have. And if *that*
> copyright violation isn't wrong, then maybe this *other* copyright
> violation isn't wrong either.
>
>


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