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Originally Posted by jusmee
You know, I started this thread, simply to see if there was a way to lend a book to a friend using the facilities provided by the book owners / sellers. From a layman/dumb user perspective, it's just something you'd expect to be able to do, at least, after they sort the software out. I didn't imagine the ensuing discussion.  Still it is interesting, and if nothing else, illustrates the mess the industry has gotten itself into. |
True. At this point, only Amazon & BN offer official lending, but the publishers have to approve it, and few, if any, of the big ones do.
... and the fact that those publishers won't even allow that highly-restricted sort of lending (a book can only be lent one time in its life, and then only for two weeks, during which time, only the lendee can read it, all managed by Amazon/BN) says a lot about what *they* would like the answer to pdurrant's question to be.
