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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I simply don't believe that if the publishers said; "we don't care if you 'lend' ebooks in the same manner in which you lent pbooks," that the ebook market would suddenly collapse because buyers would decide--en masse--to become borrowers.
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The fundamental issue is that the mechanism to lend them "in the same manner" doesn't exist. You'd need to have some means of ensuring that the lender couldn't read the book while it was lent to the borrower, and that the borrower could no longer read the book at the end of the loan period. Without that, it wouldn't be a loan at all - you'd simply be giving the recipient a copy of the book. These are exactly the same issues that prevent the re-sale of digital content.