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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian
Please tell me that you, too, are kidding? Lending, really? Once per book, 14 days, at the publisher's discretion? Almost (but not entirely) completely unlike lending.
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And you can lend an ebook to an anonymous stranger a thousand miles away. You can't do that with a pbook. Pbooks are different fron ebooks, and you can share ebooks in ways that you can't do with p books-and vice versa. I understand and am not bothered by this-but it sure bothers people on this forum.
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Yeah, it's like handing over the library key (of five existing copies, for what it's worth) because you want to somebody to read the one book. Makes perfect sense, I suppose.
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But if I want to share my entire library with my family, The Kindle makes it very easy.Kind of depends on the way you look at it.
There's a lot of things in this world that don't make perfect sense. You learn to live with these things.
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I very much doubt that. People just don't see, much less encounter, the implications yet. But they will in the not too distant future, you better believe it. And it will be those "but I just want it to work" average joes who will be the most affected.
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I very much doubt that DRM will ever concern the average user. The average user is perfectly OK with buying a Kindle or Nook and shopping from Amazon or BN. The few users who are concerned with buying from multiple bookstores or formats buy tablets, PSPs or smartphones (That's what I did) It's left to the digerati to obsess about DRM-something which doesn't make perfect sense to ME.