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Showing posts with label e-books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label e-books. Show all posts

Saturday, 1 December 2012

Buying a book: How hard can it be?


Books as things no longer?*
The news this week that ebooks purchased from Barnes & Noble will self-destruct upon the expiry of the purchaser’s credit card, again raises the question of what exactly is an e-thing, and what are we buying.
I’ve written before about the nature of virtual goods at law, and whether they constitute property or not.  The issue here is related.