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Originally Posted by eschwartz
I don't see what is so unreasonable about this. The same way you must buy it from them, and download it from them, you are already having to ask permission to download it. It could be handled the same way library loans are deactivated, and the only time you are going through the distributor is to authorize new books -- you can still read offline as always.
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It won't happen IMO. Haven't you ever decided you wanted to transfer a software title from an old computer to a new one? You can do it, but it requires phoning the company and spending at least 15 minutes on the phone with a CS rep while s/he deactivates your old computer and activates the new one. I'm sure this could be handled without CS if the companies so desired, but they rarely so desire. Currently they don't have to track a digital file once you download it. But to authorize an activation scheme means they would have to keep track of all the digital files for years. They won't be doing that as it would cost too much.
ETA: Keep in mind that it would be up to the publishing houses to keep track of which eBooks are allowed to be read on which devices. The book stores could not care less.