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Originally Posted by disconnected
I'm not convinced that even preventing "casual sharing" results in a net gain for authors/publishers.
If a group of friends all read a lot then they can get their ebooks from Amazon and swap Kindles around
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Unless you run in a circle that lights cigars with $20 bills and buys new cars every year, this is unlikely.
Kindles are fragile and (compared to books) expensive, and many people don't even lend books.
I certainly wouldn't go around lending a fragile expensive piece of equipment like it was a paperback.
(And when I lend paperbacks, experience has taught me to consider it giving a gift, because I probably will never see it again.
But it's also unnecessary because Amazon allows multiple devices on accounts and some amount of lending between accounts.