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Old 06-17-2011, 12:13 AM   #58
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Originally Posted by bhartman36 View Post
The lending mechanism, introduced first by Nook and then Kindle, is an attempt to find a middle ground, but the current restrictions on it (one lend per book, two weeks duration) are too restrictive. If the user could set the duration of the lend (or make it indefinite) and could lend a book as many times as they wanted, I think that would go a long way towards removing the most onerous restrictions on e-books.
There are already market places for "lending". This isn't lending a book to a friend. This technology basically makes ebooks free. If you can lend as many copies as you wish with no time limits -- that's leaves the producers with very few people buying their product.

There is no such thing as a "used" digital product.

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