Lending Ebooks. Why not, libraries are doing it. I wonder if they pay the publisher for each loaning of an ebook or if they just acquire a copy as they do paper ones and loan them out the same way.
And what is preventing me from having my own private library of dead tree books and renting them out. I believe that there are services such as this online at this moment (
http://www.bookswim.com/ for example), just like netflix but for books. So one should also be allowed to privately rent out an ebook as well, no?