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Old 11-27-2014, 07:34 AM   #76
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I'm not really sure how Sony plan to make any money out of this. And that's if it works.
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Old 11-27-2014, 08:06 AM   #77
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I'm not really sure how Sony plan to make any money out of this. And that's if it works.
From the publishers/resellers, probably with an up-front fee and a cut of every sale/resale. Just like Adobe's ADE DRM.
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Old 11-27-2014, 09:14 AM   #78
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I'd be more interested in being able to give my books to family members when I was done with them. My guess is that this will involve you selling them back to Sony, for a small amount of money, and the cost will be added onto the initial cost of the book and won't really be of much use.
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Old 11-27-2014, 09:47 AM   #79
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I'd be more interested in being able to give my books to family members when I was done with them.
Amazon already allow you to share books between a number of different accounts to permit exactly this.
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Old 11-27-2014, 10:41 AM   #80
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I'm sure that many people will welcome this, given the number of complaints we've had from people that they aren't able to sell their books after they've finished with them.
Welcome to the digital age

What one becomes now is not a product but a service - like paying a ticket to a live concert, or to a movie in a theatre.
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Old 11-27-2014, 01:47 PM   #81
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I'm not really sure how Sony plan to make any money out of this. And that's if it works.
I refer the honourable gentleman to my earlier answer.

Also what pdurrant said.
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Old 11-27-2014, 03:36 PM   #82
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It's possible that, in fifteen years time, few readers will be able to handle a current ebook in its original form (including DRM encryption).
ePub 2 files will probably be viable for the long term, as they are basically HTML/CSS documents in a lightweight shell.

The DRM is a different story...

EPub 3 may be diverting from the HTML standard, I'm not that up on ePub 3.
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Old 11-27-2014, 07:47 PM   #83
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Old 11-27-2014, 08:13 PM   #84
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Amazon already allow you to share books between a number of different accounts to permit exactly this.
I'm not aware of how to share with people outside of my immediate family - people I wouldn't give my credit card number to or anything like that. How can I share books with them?
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Old 11-28-2014, 02:54 AM   #85
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This is published in EPUB 3, so you can't download it from Kobo.
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Old 11-28-2014, 03:12 AM   #86
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I'm not aware of how to share with people outside of my immediate family - people I wouldn't give my credit card number to or anything like that. How can I share books with them?
It's still intended for sharing books among family members - not with arbitrary people - but do a Google search for "Kindle Family Library". It was introduced in a recent firmware update. You did say "family members" in your earlier post.

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Sure you can, using the Kobo desktop reader.
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Old 11-28-2014, 08:58 AM   #88
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It's still intended for sharing books among family members - not with arbitrary people - but do a Google search for "Kindle Family Library". It was introduced in a recent firmware update. You did say "family members" in your earlier post.

My immediate family shares my account. I was thinking of my mom and my mother-in-law.
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My immediate family shares my account. I was thinking of my mom and my mother-in-law.
Yes, that's the difference with the new Kindle Family Library. It allows several different Amazon accounts to share books, as opposed to sharing books by registering more than one Kindle to the same Amazon account.

I guess though, that if, as your username suggests, you're a nook user, it may not be of much relevance to you.
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