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You may be using a book you purchased or borrowed from another student. People sell or share books all the time, but not e-books! With the growth of electronic readers, such as Amazons Kindle, buying electronic books is easy and growing in popularity. But purchasers of e-books dont have the same rights as those purchasing physical books. Some consumers found out that its just as easy for sellers to take them back as it is for buyers to get them. For instance, Amazon.com realized that it didnt have the proper rights to sell certain bookssuch as George Orwells 1984and used its wireless technology to delete them from its customers Kindle e-readers. While purchases were refunded, some called the company an Orwellian Big Brother because the deletion was done without their knowledge. Imagine if you purchased 1984 and tried to read it right before the test, only to learn that it had disappeared from your Kindle. Owning an e-book is much like licensing software, with digital rights management software embedded within it in order to prevent sharing and selling. And yet such software confuses consumers and limits the number of devices that can play a single e-book.

(1) How would you classify e-booksas a tangible good, an experience, or a service? Explain your choice.

(2) Do you think consumers should be able to do whatever they want with an e-book once they purchase it, just as they can with a tangible book? Explain.