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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
This would completely gut their retail market. Which is probably why it has never been done for pbooks.
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Actually, I remember in the early 1950s being able to go into a local pharmacy and rent the newest bestseller for a nominal sum. For-profit lending "libraries," that is, places where you rented a book, were not uncommon in the United States. Ultimately they died out because the public library system grew, not because publishers put them out of business.