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What Happens When eBooks Cease to be Files

Peter Brantley considers what happens to our understanding of ownership, fairuse, and the ISBN when books move to the cloud.

The ISBN problem is particularly interesting. Is the ISBN simply for tracking sales? Or does it have a larger importance as an identifier for an artifact. Perhaps a more granular identifier is needed — an identifier that lives at the paragraph level, as in academic publishing.

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