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The only people I've tried to loan an e-book to have been my parents or MIL. In most of those cases, they are so far beyond tech-savy that an eReader scares them off completely. I've loaned them the entire reader, set up with the book loaded up ready-to-read in a nice large font (they don't even have to navigate from the home-screen) and I STILL don't think either of my parents has ever read a single page of an eBook. So in this instance, a publisher isn't missing out on anything - they never would have bought the electronic copy anyway.
I still can't understand how thrift stores are "allowed" to sell used physical books, when their corresponding eBooks have such strict copyright rules on it. Don't get me wrong - I think they should ALWAYS be allowed to, if nothing else other than it stops said books from ending up in the landfill/recycling pile!
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