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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Also, the way it is now, the publishers are just as deprived of income. The lending clubs exist purely to save people from having to buy the book. I personally would be happy with a system like the one advocated at one point here on MR, I lost track of where... require actually knowing the person to lend a book. Just like pbooks. You could do it via smartphone apps and NFC to pass the loan details. Possibly e-ink ereaders could be updated, not with NFC hardware -- that raises the price and they wouldn't go for that -- but with software communicate via WiFi?
Unlimited loans, but you have to do it face to face, leaves us both better off, and compares perfectly to pbooks.
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That's certainly better than piracy/thieving. I wouldn't object to that, but of course, many would, due to privacy issues. It's apparent to me that many younger people are far, far less concerned about the invasiveness of devices into their privacy. But for a lot of we older types, there's an objection to even setting location capabilities for phones, not to mention, going through our contact lists, etc. {shrug}. Nonetheless, I'd say it's worth a try.
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That is your choice. But that's the point - it is YOUR choice.
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Yes, just as it's an author/publisher's choice
whether they want to give their work away. For the better books, of whatever lineage, it's WORK. It's not play. It's not an impromptu jam session, whipped up at the end of the night. The average novel requires 400 hours of work. For the rest of we humans, that's ~
10 weeks of work. I'm pretty sure that there are very few of us that would be sanguine about losing any proceeds from whatever we earned, made, sold, etc., for that 10 weeks. There's simply a major disrespect for digital products.
Hitch