It would be nice if the publishers would sell copies of eBooks with the DRM keyed to the SD chip the book is on at the time of purchase: one book to one SD chip. Brick and Mortor book stores would have a unique identifier and would use a PC with one or more SD slots to sell eBooks that are keyed this way.
The idea is that customers who buy books at a B&M store would be able to sell or share them like a physical book, but you could only get them by going into a B&M store to buy them. The SD chip would probably have to incode the book chip with the identifier for the store where it was purchased, date purchased and purchase price or something, and they might have to design some sort of read-only SD card that could be locked to further recording once a book is copied to it. The scheme would promote B&M book stores, large and small, which do add value and give us book buyers a motive to go to a book store for eBooks. Book stores would never run out of the digital edition of books and could supply just about any book in an eBook format for every customer. Of course, the ordinary DRM schemes used now, that lock our books to a specific device eBook reader or a specific user, would still be sold over the internet too.
OK, I know. There's probably some reason this can't work or someone would have thought of it. That's why I didn't want to embarrase myself by posting the idea, but here it is just the same.
