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These are interesting and sensible comments. As always, there is no really good answer wrt electronic media and protecting IP from unbounded duplication/piracy. I actually like Sony's approach by allowing up to 6 'registered' devices (Readers and/or pc's) to share protected content. It allows a certain amount of sharing without opening things up to widespread copying. This works well for me "at home" where there's 2 of us and 2 Readers. But yeah, there's no perfect solution. Although I agree creativity isn't finite, and one could freely distribute a "first in series" book to promote subsequent volumes (I've been sold on this myself!), some other works may be shortchanged by unchecked copying/'sharing.'
No, there's no perfect solution, but electronic media raises a lot of new angles for sure.
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