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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
I can appreciate everyone's interest in making their quick buck, but the kind of gimmicky garbage being put forward as book usage emulation limitations are just ridiculous.
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Wow, someone ate their Cranky Flakes today.
It seems to me more like this is an intelligent way to restore the right to lend a book to the consumer. You will need almost certainly need a B&N account, but lent ebooks will work with their PC and smartphone software, so you don't need to spend a single thin dime to read a lent B&N book if you don't want to. It's building off of the same concept as how a library works, except that the books get returned automatically and you don't have to worry about librarians giving you dirty looks and fining you when you bring the book back late.
DRM-free would be better, and that may happen one day -- heck if the music industry has accepted the loss of DRM, books could do it as well. But that's not going to happen any time soon. In the interim this seems like a great way to address one major concern about ebooks.
P.S. the color LCD bar seems like a gimmick to me, but lending does not.
