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Originally Posted by anamardoll
There are textbook rentals already that are plain jane mobi. If the makers of... you know... are worried about it being abused, that particular cat is out of the bag.
And how many people rip library book to convert and read on their Kindle and then delete? If rental is an issue, then it should have been an issue then, not now, imho. |
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
There are mobipocket format textbook rentals? Could you point me to one?
It's a fair point about the library books.
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Here's one:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...w_myk_ro_title
This is the second in the series -- the whole series is available for purchase/rental EXCEPT, oddly enough, the first book in the series which is only available for purchase. Ah, publishers and their ineffable ways.
I read these in college and loved them, but I wanted to try the rental first before buying because the Amazon Kindle formatting worried me. Turns out I need not have worried -- the books are formatted
beautifully and I highly recommend them.
But I did learn in the process that the rental mobi is -- best I can tell -- indistinguishable from the purchased mobi. Now, mind you, I bought the book outright (the rental price goes towards the buy price) before the rental period expired, so maybe the hypothetical epub I could have made to test the formatting-after-conversion on my Sony would have exploded after the rental period ended, I don't know. 'Course this is all intensely hypothetical.
