[ciprian_craciun]

I don't see how respecting one's rights (in this case one's copyright over his own works) leads to having revoked the right to buy books.

I agree that it is sad to see many online book stores moving from "selling" to "renting". But that is a completely different problem.

As a personal note, I know the pain of not being able to access scientific papers because they were behind paywalls, and I had to search for drafts to be able to read them. But that model was well in place circa 2010, thus it's and old tactic applied to a new field: books (and others).