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Old 10-08-2014, 10:58 AM   #95
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Lending books without DRM is giving books away, not lending them. People can't be trusted to delete books at the end of a loan period. If I were a publisher, I certainly wouldn't lend out books without an expiry mechanism. It's a completely understandable requirement for a publisher to have, and Adobe are not the "bad guys" for providing a mechanism for fulfilling that requirement.
Sorry Harry, but if that were true, then openlibrary wouldn't exist, and libraries wouldn't be lending out audiobooks as downloadable mp3.

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