Thread: eBook vs paper book analogy
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Old 10-05-2009, 10:46 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by HansTWN View Post
Actually, DRM allows 4-6 copies, depending on the system, if I remember correctly. That is better than what pbooks offer. I hope we slowly move to an EPub standard, then the books can be used on virtually any device without removing DRM. That would be great as a preliminary step before everything can be sold DRM free.
"But the cage, it so pretty! And it offers protection from predators. It's better than being free!"

Your ability to lend out your paper book is based more than anything else on the way the physical universe works.

Your ability to lend out your DRM'd eBook is based on how Sony's CEO felt after reading the last quarterly sales report.

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