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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
It is indeed a tech issue. I'm a tech. I don't know a good way to do it without measures a lot of folks won't like. The B&N scheme works because the nooks connect to the network, and the lending scheme can disable access to the book on the lender's device for the period of the loan. Lots of folks aren't thrilled by that kind of remote control, and I'm not sure I blame them.
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This is simply not doable, as long as the majority of ereaders aren't connected... Besides, as soon as a book is on my PC, I disinfect it. Then where is your copy protection?
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Another is that a significant part of the value of a book for the buyer is the ability to resell it. That's probably truer for some forms of books than others, with textbooks a particular example. But it's not necessarily true for all readers.
For instance, I buy books to keep. If I accumulate duplicates, or have books I no longer want, I give them away. They don't have a resale value for me, and my sole concern is seeing they get into the hands of someone who wants to read them. Everybody else I know who reads a lot is the same way.
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I completely agree with this... I buy a book because
I like it. Not because somebody else might like it so I can sell it to him later on...
It reminds me of something that was said on a tv show about selling and buying houses. Somebody was thinking about not putting a bathtub in, even though she would have liked it herself, because it might drop the value of the house when she wanted to sell, after so many years... (at which time the bathroom would have been ready for a renovation anyway...) Or people buying a blue car, while they hate blue, simply because a blue car re-sells better...