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Authorizing 5 devices is not the same as lending a book. I want to have a book on a memory card, hand that card to a friend, they insert it into their reader, and read the book. When they are finished reading the book, they can return it to me or, if I no longer want it, pass it on to another person. I'm not sure what you mean by saying the ebooks have a more generous lending policy than pbooks? I can continue to loan out a pbook until it literally falls apart. As far as I know, that does not constitute a copyright infringement. With Sony's DRM, it seems I'm limited to 5 or 6 loans and, even then, each recipient would have to register their computer or reader before the book can be read. In my mind, that's pretty restrictive since there is no equivalent in pbooks. A library can loan a pbook and, when it is returned, loan it again until, as I said, it falls apart.
Dave W
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