From another angle, if I read an e-book and I like it, I can't give it to my friend, because I don't technically own it (for that matter, I can't resell it or d

From another angle, if I read an e-book and I like it, I can't give it to my friend, because I don't technically own it (for that matter, I can't resell it or donate it to a library either). I just have a personal license for it. It might be more convenient from a storage perspective, but it turns out you aren't actually buying a 'thing' when you buy an e-book, you are buying a license to a 'thing'. My automatic assumption was that the crappy paperback version and the ebook version should be about the same price, but thinking about it from a perspective of what I own, the ebook should be significantly less.