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Originally Posted by vitualis
As for "renting", it should work more like a public library. A monthly/annual fee (that shouldn't be exorbitant) and you can "borrow" a book for up to 3 weeks. You can borrow 5 books at once and can borrow more when you "return" them out (i.e., authenticated deletion from your player). Just like at a real library, there are limited number of copies so that for "popular" books, you will have to either wait in a queue (or buy it).
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That's a good idea. Some book publishers actually do this already, have an online book shelf of which you have a certain amount of "slots". Once you put a book in a slot is has to stay there for a certain amount of time, before you can clear the slot. Of course most of these are for PC reading, not off line. Examples are like O'Riley's Safari and Books24x7 ... Of course, these are more reference oriented and the months about about $40 a month rather than 10/15.
But, I haven't seen any places like this for Fiction books.
BOb