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Originally Posted by jdh2550
Darn! I'll either be canceling my order or selling it on eBay.
Or maybe I'll keep it for a while and see if they bow to pressure and allow books to be lent as many times as the paper equivalent can be...
Here's a novel idea - if they had Bluetooth they could insist that you only lend it to someone you were geographically next to. That way they avoid the "risk" of people lending stuff around the world (of course paperbacks get lent around the world already and I don't think Stephen King or JK Rowling are too worried about that form of viral marketing).
Other than greed I don't understand why they won't accept the paperback model and allow lending.
Sigh.  |
I have to admit, I can understand limiting either the number of people you can lend to. If you don't limit the number of people you can lend to, then you could have a book go "viral", with a bunch of people reading it without paying. That might be more than publishers want to deal with, even on a Bluetooth level.
Limiting the amount of time you can lend a book for makes less sense to me, though. And certainly two weeks seems like an odd place to draw the line. If the idea is to limit how much of a book a person could read, shouldn't the limit be a day, at the most? And if it's
not to limit how much of a book a person can read, what
is the point of a time limit? Once I've read it, who cares if it disappears from my device, unless it's a reference work?