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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
I wonder what publishers will do when ereaders drop below $50? Imagine buying a few spares for group use and loaning them out to get around the current personal ebook lending limits.  |
Ereaders are already below $50 in the case of the Kobo Mini. It is rarely sold at full retail.
And libraries have in some cases kindle they loan out with 50 est sellers loaded on them even in Canada where you cannot get a kindle library book by itself. I am sure this is all on the up and up with publisher approval as it is advertised on their websites.
Libraries are funded in part based on their book circulation. Would a library director submit a funding application that asked for funding for ereaders based on the idea of ripping off the publishers and actually reducing their circulation? If more people can read the same book on one loan, then library funding would be reduced. Find me a library director who wants that.
It would benefit people in smaller libraries who cannot or will not provide ebooks, but then why would they provide readers.
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Perhaps you are referring to users buying a few spares and lending them out. They do this already as I am sure you know. And a book can often be read on more than one device. We don't have to imagine this.
Helen