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Originally Posted by KenJackson
Ah! You're suggesting a technical solution to keep the model the same for ebooks as it is now for pbooks. That is, build the capability for resale into the DRM scheme.
That's an interesting possibility which I hadn't thought of. And, yes, I agree that is a technical problem which could be solved.
I hate it, but it might transpire.
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I don't like it either, and I think the DRM aspects make it even more troublesome (because I don't think we'll ever see uncrackable, widely-used DRM), but if it's easy and not troublesome to use, most people will accept it.
It's not a neat, simple solution, just one direction publishers & authors could start considering. Right now, they're all hung up on NO RESELL EBOOKS EVER EVER EVER, which they've mostly succeeded at enforcing, but that's done nothing to prevent people from handing out copies of them.
Surreptitious copies, of course--the kind that people don't talk about at the office water cooler and suggest that other people might like reading. Hand-me-down books that don't generate future sales because they don't generate open discussion.