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Originally Posted by Madam Broshkina
I wonder if people would buy a book that was sold on a SD card that would could be read by any of the current and future readers. The file would have to be read only and no way it could be copied. When your done with the book you could lend the card to a friend or possibly sell it like you would sell one of your printed books. The cost would be more due to packaging and manufacturing costs but you would own something physical. I myself have no real problem with DRM but by reading this site apparently some people do.
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i think this was discussed previously, but i can't remember where. i think there are good points and bad points to this solution. the good points are the ones you mentioned, and all of them seem very attractive to me.
however, one bad point is (in my mind, anyway), one book per card means instead of stocking individual paper books, then i must stock individual sd card books. they are smaller, but i'm sure that an external hard drive is much smaller still than the equivalent number of books on sd cards. one of the great things about ebooks, for me, is they take up almost *no room* ! my appartment is really small and already crammed with paper books (whose number i am slowly reducing, even if i don't intend to get rid of *all* of them). i don't want more things to stock. (i'm even starting to think about de-materialising my cds next ; they take up a lot of space as well...)
however, that being said, it could be a good solution for *some* books, or in particular cases.