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Originally Posted by tompe
I do not believe that to be true at all. If the publisher get paid for each lending of a book I do not see why the fact that some people keep the book a longer time would reduce the income for the publisher.
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They are protecting against the fact that some people might borrow it and give a copy to someone else who might have bought the book or might have borrowed it themselves.
This does deprive the publisher and author of income.
Some people are even unaware that they are doing anything wrong by doing this. Still it is wrong and illegal and DRM is the only way I know of to partially prevent this. Blind naive trust just doesn't work much of the time.
Helen