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Originally Posted by mogui
Maybe eBook retailers could operate like "for fee" libraries. You pay a fee, download a book, read it or not, and after a period of time it becomes unusable. This book would be DRMed. Thus, we would deviate from the notion that we are buying something. Under this business model, readers would have their needs fulfilled, and publishers, retailers and authors could make money.
If the lending fee was sufficiently small, could everyone accept this? Hmmm?
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This was the way that DRM worked on the original Sony Librie in Japan. It was, by all accounts, a complete commercial disaster. People want content to
keep.
Hasn't there been an attempt to introduce "self destructing" DVDs in the US? I believe they've not been too successful, either.