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Originally Posted by Mrs_Often
It is ridiculous indeed. And understandable that you are fuming. It's a long term discussion though. The DRM is to try and prevent piracy... of course it's much easier to share a digital book with many people (over the internet for example). And when you do share, you don't give up your copy like you would do with a paper book: you keep your copy, and another copy is made for the person who'll be 'borrowing' the book from you. DRM is meant to prevent this sort of viral sharing.
But DRM isn't sophisticated enough. I think it should have a built in "lending out" option, where you temporarily give up your reading rights and transfer them to a friend, like the library does when you borrow a digital book from them. But alas, the DRM is locked. Which in my eyes only invites piracy instead of preventing it.
And yes, I agree with you, if you don't get full rights, the ebook should be cheaper than the paper book. That would diminish piracy, as it'll be easier to just buy a book to read instead of downloading it illegally from somewhere as it's cheap anyway
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You make perfect sense Mrs often.
I love reading "proper" books. So will never stop buying them. Nothing takes the place of being the first to read a new book in my hand.
However ebooks are great and I have discovered lots of new authors that I would have never found otherwise.But lots of them are only slightly cheaper than real books.
I have no desire to lend them out.
Just want to know I will still have them 5 years from now to browse through. The same option I have with my paper books.