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Originally Posted by jersysman
I am still trying to figure out the publishers motivation for having this restriction. With everything with them it comes down to money. Do they actually think that this will bring in more money? Don't answer that. Of course that is what they think! I mean when I my my kids eReaders we wouldn't even be able to share books among ourselves. How stupid is that?
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Most publishers don't allow lending at all. of the "Agency 6" only Macmillan allows it (but Macmillan doesn't allow Overdrive to lend its books through libraries). It's hit or miss with smaller publishers.
The automatic-return feature of e-book lending makes it unlike a lot of paper book lending--in e-book lending at least you know you will get your book back.
Theoretically you could lend out your e-book nearly constantly to hundreds of people if there were no restrictions, and yeah, I suppose a publisher would think that would eat into profit.
I don't see why you wouldn't be able to share e-books between your kids, though. You could register them to the same account, or sideload them into different readers.