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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
I hate DRM with a passion, but I have no issues with it for a rental service. If they want to rent a book to me for $1 and DRM it, that's fine. Easier than going to the library, cheaper than a used bookstore.
It's charging purchase price, and pretending it is ownership, while effectively turning into a rental with DRM that aggravates me.
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Not that I want to defend DRM --- but we are talking about up to 6 simultaneous rentals. And you never have to return it. So talking about it as if they rented the books to you for a few days like a movie is a gross exaggeration and doesn't help our case. $1 is ridiculously low under the circumstances. While we all agree that an ebook should be somewhat cheaper than a pbook we have to be realistic. $1 below the cheapest new paperback should be reasonable.
If you really just want to read it once and then get rid of it, why don't you check out the ebook from a library and pay nothing?