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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
The iTunes model would work perfectly for ebooks. Price the digital version at 1/2 to 2/3 of the price of the physical version (and in this case, I would suggest they use the cheapest physical version on the market at the time), and, while they're at it, why not set the ebooks up so that they can be loaned out?? If the lending libraries can have versions that expire after a period of time, why not have versions that will last forever on your ebook, but expire after 2 weeks if transferred to a friend's.
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Because those systems simply won't work. Already been proven.
I saw several libraries that tried this and they all failed:
1. The systems were hacked to prevent the content from expiring, or
2. The readers of the eBooks were restricted to the point that only a very, very small number of people could use it, or
3. The expiration code simply didn't work (didn't expire soon enough, expired too soon, etc.).