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Originally Posted by Daithi
The LendMe technology is about as revolutionary as Amazon's Text-To-Speech in that publishers can opt out, which greatly reduces it's revolutionary impact. Their FAQ on lending books also states that you can only lend a book out once, and a B&N mod reiterated that you can only lend a book one time only, but I'm still having a hard time believing this is true. If it is true then the LendMe feature is virtually worthless. If you can lend out a book, and then relend it once the 14 day lending period has expired, then this is a pretty cool feature. I'd even say revolutionary if most publishers support it.
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Not even close the LendMe is a hack solution for a inappropriate constraint on the consumer. A feature that allows one to lend a book once for only 14 days is nothing to get excited about. Also we haven't seen how LendMe works. More than likely the person that you share a book with will need an account on B&N and have a device that supports eReader.
TTS however allows one to read a book via a different process. This works with and without DRM and enhances the reading experience (Okay some might argue otherwise).
Sell a DRM less item and TTS still has value where as LendMe is obsoleted.