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Originally Posted by kennyc
Regardless of being on the board or not, why would a publisher want to specifically prevent you from sharing a book? You are claiming that they are intentionally taking that right away from the consumer. Why, what purpose of the publisher would that server, what benefit or monetary gain is to be made from it?
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They already do this. B&N's sharing software allows sharing of an ebook, one time, up to two weeks--and many publishers have opted to *not allow* this function to work with their books.
Presumably, they think they will sell more books if their customers can't share the ones they have.