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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
In practicality, how would they know you finished the book? Some people can devour a book in a single day, others take weeks. Some flip to the back and read the ending first, some start at the acknowledgments and read on. What metric would they use to decide you'd actually finished the book once?
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I would imagine it would work something like how it works with textbooks that expire after a semester? But this is not the question really. Anything can be programmed so there would be zero hurdles on the tech side of the equation. Where I see the issues would be selling it to us the consumer and also finding what it would take to strong arm the retailers into it. Though I am willing to bet anything that could induce more purchases is not really going to cause much of a fuss from the retailers, yeah even Amazon. They might pound their chests for use peons but behind closed doors they'll take the cash every time.
The only real roadblock I see is us the consumer. And, really we don't have a single say in any of it as long as "The Agency" is running the show with nobody watching their business practices. So long as they keep the cash flowing into the proper pockets it won't change. Unless some Attorney General out there like to read ebooks.
Do I think this is likely to happen? Heck I dunno but it came to mind and who knows what will come to be the acceptable for the sale of ebooks in a couple years.