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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Kobo's response is that no-one else may read your ebooks, not even on authorised devices.
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That seems a bit extreme!
Obviously if there had been a way for publishers/sellers to restrict people from swapping, lending, giving away or reselling their paperbacks and hardbacks, they would have done so. They obviously want to maximise their income. E-books just means they now can do so.
I can't see any good argument that e-books shouldn't be significantly cheaper than paperback books, the same way paperbacks are significantly cheaper than hardbacks. As they aren't I think all they are doing is leaving themselves open to piracy, much the same way the music industry did with MP3s and DRM.