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Originally Posted by murraypaul
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'
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I don't see anything inherently wrong with changing a pricing model on digital content (which is "forever") to mirror physical goods (which deteriorate). Much as everyone around here loves to hate publishers, I think they provide valuable services and I would like to see them remain in business. I
do have a problem with publishers raising the prices to such extremes that libraries are unable to buy ebooks. There has to be a happy middle somewhere.