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Originally Posted by Martin Smith
A good use of DRM for me would be things like the possibility of "renting" books (say by paying 10% of the selling price per day with the DRM controlling an expiry date). Does this exist already somewhere?
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Sony did this with the Librie (their original eInk book reader) in Japan. It was a complete commercial disaster. People want to "own" ebooks, not rent them.
There are, however, a number of libraries which "lend out" MobiPocket format eBooks with time-limited DRM.