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Originally Posted by eschwartz
It will happen as soon as the stores have a financial incentive to allow that. Hint: NEVER.
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Not necessarily never. Assuming ebooks really become mainstream then the DRM abuses will generate pressure on governments to require bookstores to do something. Might be allowing users to transfer books from one store to another. My best guess however is the stores will cooperate in setting up a common 'library' for the user accounts. This would not be for users to obtain books, those would still (probably) be locked to the bookstore-but when you purchase a book the store would add it to your account at the library so all the books you purchase would be available no matter where you purchased them from. (I don't look for that soon but maybe someday, if ebooks become mainstream before the number of readers drops to a politically insignificant minority. That's probably a tossup.)