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Re:The Abomination of Ebooks: They Price People Out of Reading by DanBC on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @12:17PM (#6483381)
Ebooks kill things like book crossing (http://www.bookcrossing.com/)

I'm going to spend thousands on books over the rest of my life, and it's very frustrating that I won't be able to leave those to my family when I die. Unless I break the law to remove DRM.

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Re:The Abomination of Ebooks: They Price People Out of Reading by pnathan on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @12:20PM (#6483402)
FYI: The company I work for does e-books in a fairly niche market and while we do have DRM, we have mechanisms in place to transfer ownership relatively painlessly. The fact that Amazon etc don't make that simple is not per se intrinsic to e-books.
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Re:The Abomination of Ebooks: They Price People Out of Reading by Nursie on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @12:50PM (#6483629)
That actually sounds very good. A relatively easy transfer-of-ownership thing is what's missing for me in the ebook world. It would allow ebooks to be part of small office-based libraries, or lent between friends, these are good things.
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