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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
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.
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Okay, but why? What's the reasoning. Still that's almost the opposite of the issue under discussion. Shaggy is claiming that across the board the publishers are specifically conspiring to take this right away from consumers with the current DRM. Clearly if some are allowing it for the limited sharing of B&N then some clearly appear to be open to it.
My question is not whether they are or are not doing it (clearly some are based on your information) but what would be the benefit to them to specifically limit this right to share or sell books in the same manner as pbooks? I can't see any. If you can please point it out. I refuse to believe that they would just do it for malice, corporations don't do that, the are driven by the bottom line.