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Old 09-22-2010, 07:26 PM   #2
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Before starting your ebook business, you should probably know how they work. Your short post indicates a rather extreme lack of understanding of ebook technical issues and marketing methods.

Nook, Microsoft & iPad are not ebook formats; they're devices/platforms, and each of them is capable of reading multiple formats.

Reselling or renting ebooks is legally touchy; you'd need a special contract with publishers or authors to do so with anything currently covered by copyright. Just selling them, including temporary-use ebooks that shut off after a given time, is easier, but many ebook customers won't buy temp books (except for textbooks, and even for those, it's a hard sell).

What kind of ebooks are you planning to specialize in, or were you thinking of a broad range of ebooks? How do you intend to offer titles cheaper, in more formats, or more conveniently than the current ebook stores?
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