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Originally Posted by buxton-arts
I understand the issues of 'I've bought it so why cant I (and all my family and friends and people using upload sites) read it on anything' ... but maybe you should see it as 'I've bought it (usually alot cheaper than the paper option) to read it on my Kindle'
The extreme view is 'why isnt everything $0.0 cost'
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ps - Amazon 'lend' books
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I just finished reading Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. I loved it. I think my brother will love it. But I bought it for Kindle, and my brother has an older Sony model, so I can't lend it to him, I can only say "hey, check out this book". He's not going to go spend $9 on unknown (to him) author, he's just going to not read it or (best case scenario) get it from the library IF they ever get that ebook and IF it's ever available for checkout (it's very popular - it will probably be years before it's available for him).
So what happened? The author is out money because my brother would have likely bought the sequels. (Heck, if he really likes something, he'll usually buy a copy for himself before returning my copy.) And if my brother and I both approve of a book, my dad also jumps on the bandwagon and starts buying books. But DRM prevents all of this from happening. It's made the reading experience quite sterile and lonely because I can't share books with my family.