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Originally Posted by Catlady
Why didn't HC just decide to disallow library borrowing for all their e-books? At least that would be honest.
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Because that would be unambiguously bad PR.
This is an action they can quite easily explain by analogy to paper books, and have a large proportion of the general publc think they are being reasonable. And if there is more resistance than they expected they can just fiddle with the number a bit and look concilatory, while everyone had implictly accepted the underlying principle of self-destructing books. Even here at mobileread there have been a significant number of response along the lines of 'well maybe 100 would be ok'