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Originally Posted by HarryT
The problem is, though, that with an ebook, you're not lending it to your friends; you're making an additional copy of it, and giving that copy to your friends.
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I really think that's a red herring. Most people read most books once, digital or paper. Passing it on to someone else gets the book read about as many times whether they keep a copy for themselves or not. I suspect the effect of this on a book's sales is very small and because making it easy to share a book is likely to get the book talked about more that effect is as likely to be positive as negative.
Barry