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Such books are also purchased in the millions and sold for one penny plus shipping online partly as a marketing effort by booksellers who can then include their own catalogs with each sale.

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With a physical book, the afterlife of a disposable read is to hand it off to another party: a library sale, a friend or relative, or the free bin outside a used bookstore. (In the US, the public lending right or remuneration right doesn't hold the first-sale doctrine allows library lending of physical media without additional fees.) Publishers don't much like libraries, either, despite the chin-wagging otherwise.

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Allowing the loan of 'The Lost Symbol' by any purchaser to any other e-book hardware or software user worldwide turns each buyer into a one-person lending library. Dan Brown's epics are rarely re-read, judging by how many copies are available for one penny or given away in free book bins weeks after release. Many different titles are flogged, but the most disposable and ephemeral have the lion's share of units sold. To judge from the information Amazon provides, the long tail applies to e-books as it does everywhere else. But the licensing terms for music didn't change, and books and video remain locked down, however ineffective such protection is.īut the reason for restricting lending, even with the sham of offering it in Amazon's or Barnes & Noble's form, is to distract people from the fact that buyers are spending real money to buy a book they may read just once. True, Apple removed digital rights management (DRM) protection from its music when the recording industry decided its best tool to fight Apple's near-total ownership of digital downloads was to make it possible for music to be played on devices other than iPods. That was as tendentious then as it is now, and applies just as directly to Apple's current e-book offerings. I can own a car but that doesn't give me the right to speed 100mph in it.

certain boundaries on your rights, just as on everything I own. He explained: I do think of it as ownership, and it really does fit the definition of legal ownership. Asked if one could therefore sell the song, Mr Schiller said no. Mr Schiller described buying a song as owning it. This Babbage recalls an Apple executive, Phil Schiller, extolling to him in 2003 the virtues of purchasing downloadable music when that company's iTunes Store launched, and the dominant model was for recurring subscriptions. Witness Amazon's remote deletion-since abjured-of improperly sold copies of George Orwell's '1984' and 'Animal Farm' in 2009. We are granted an illusion of ownership, but may read only within the ecosystem of hardware and software supported by the bookseller with sometimes additional limitations imposed by publishers.

Each of those characteristics is littered with footnotes and exceptions for e-books. If you own a physical book, in much of the world you may sell it, lend it-even burn or bury it.