Most of us, I think, are most likely to loan books to people we know. So if we chose to be quite so pernickety about the so-and-so's and legalities of copying, we could should we so choose keep one copy of the book, on a memory card, pass it around a bunch of friends, safe in the knowledge it could be re-downloaded in the event of a mishap from wherever it was purchased (good point! Though I've heard Waterstones in the UK don't allow that, to their shame). And friends, in turn, could do the same for us, and loan their single copy on their own memory cards. Assuming, that is (a point outside of the copyright question, but still relevant) that any associated DRM wouldn't stiff said books when we plugged other people's memory cards into our respective readers.
Book swap party, anyone?
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Originally Posted by TallMomof2
All publishers have to do is to allow me to resell my $$$ DRMed ebook after I finish with it and I would gladly pay a higher price. Since I am the only person allowed to have a copy of the ebook it's worth less to me than the paper book (hard, soft, or trade) edition.
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