Hi,
Actually a smart implementation of this idea may be interesting. As mentioned in all my posts, I hate drm and do not buy drm'ed books (I may make an occasional exception for convertible ones but here in the US we have dcma so even if I would I could not talk about it...
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I still think that an open format business model will evolve for most fiction books at least (I like that ad idea for textbooks too, so maybe there is hope for nonfiction also - I make this distinction since fiction has far longer life than nonfiction hence it will be far easier to get an open format business model for it starting with say those "orphans" and with midlist books who will have some audience as opposed to most older nonfiction which just expires).
However with a crossplatform good reader (like that dot reader to come) so any device that has a usb port can read the content (or maybe changing usb to something like sd/rs-mmc that is more universal since you always can use a usb reader), with drm tied to to the keydrive not the owner, or easily transferred to another owner, with physical durability, creative marketing (bundles, posibility of adding more content), no stupid things like expiration dates, this may be a compromise that recreates the physical unicity of a pbook (you can scan a pbook, you can snag anything on your screen but it is still work), allows transferability hence reselling, and conversely can put a library on a stick and so on...
You could read it on a device at a time, but as long as you could read it on most devices, it is durable and you can resell/transfer it legally, it is far more acceptable than the current drm models.
Liviu
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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
We are not sure this is going to win any hearts and minds, but Numly Inc., a company who provides authors a way of branding individual copies of digital content, just introduced BookFob, a USB stick with an embedded DRM-capable e-book reader.
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