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Old 12-23-2007, 02:33 PM   #97
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Books and more books
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Originally Posted by GregS View Post
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For libraries, I would suggest, time-bomb triggers, that is agreement by software reader suppliers to look for a library signature and delete the file if it is out of date. This might also work for short term renting of books, but anyone determined to get a copy could easily get around it.
Interesting thoughts in all of the above post. However one simple question remains unanswered to me. Why bother?

If you think there need to be so many hoops (publishers do this, consumers do that...) why bother with e-books at all. print books work quite well...

E-books need to have REALLY compelling benefits for people and this to me is still the big unanswered question. Who is going to offer those benefits? The publishers - well until they MUST, they won't as we well know from the music industry case, and from current practices...
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