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Old 10-08-2014, 11:43 AM   #107
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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.
Libraries have Open EPUB books with no drm in the US. JA Konrath has a lot of these at the Philly Library - http://freelibrary.lib.overdrive.com...levancy&Page=1
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