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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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I'm surprised at that.
I generally will only read a fiction book once (unless I get the urge to read and don't happen to have anything around that I haven't read before) so "owning" an e-book I have already read would not be important to me - as long as the price I was paying to rent was sufficiently lower than the price to buy.