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Old 03-25-2011, 03:56 PM   #560
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
This is a good point.

If I had to choose between having no DRM on ebooks that are sold or having ebooks available from libraries, I'll go for having no DRM on ebooks that are sold.

But I would have thought that some method of enabling libraries to lend ebooks could be found, perhaps with custom hardware.
I don't see why they would need to. I can't see hardback books going away anytime ever. Even if libraries became their only customers there is enough of those to make a print run worthwhile.
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