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"Some services were lending for remote downloads, without geographical restrictions. This was in breach of contracts between the library and aggregator, and between the aggregator and publisher, and was advertised to the general public as 'free e-books, wherever you are, whenever you want'. Under this model, who would ever buy an e-book ever again?"
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Well... the first thing in order to
buy an ebook is that you actually own the thing. So far, if you "buy" (aka give money in exchange for) an ebook, a real transfer of ownership doesn't happen (sauf Bewrite, Smashwords, Baen and the whole lot of people who actually care about their customers).
You just get it lent indefinitely, indefinitely meaning a) until the DRM wanes, making your book irretrievable again; b) until the real owner decides to take away your books, à la 1984; or c) until you break the DRM and acquire full ownership of the file.
Therefore, the matter is that I can choose between a so-called permanent lease which costs lots of money, and a temporary lease which doesn't cost a penny. Of course, under those conditions, "who would buy a book ever again?"