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How would you suggest that book sellers handle lending. Note the word "sellers" - they don't make any money from lending, just from selling. They're really sc
by anamax 16y ago
How would you suggest that book sellers handle lending.
Note the word "sellers" - they don't make any money from lending, just from selling.
They're really scared that they'll sell one copy and everyone will read that copy (or copies of it).
Note - "they should make less money" isn't an answer.
- tejaswiy 16y agoThe same way that they've been handling it till now. Book lending isn't really a new invention. Even with the turn off the wireless hack, you can have a max of two copies of the book at once. I don't think it's that big a deal.
- ceejayoz 16y ago> Note - "they should make less money" isn't an answer. They should make more money isn't a very good answer, either. eBooks are massively cheaper to distribute, yet we see a minimal discount. Add in the fact that they're limiting lending to once per book when I can lend a physical book infinitely many times and you're looking at higher profits for eBooks than normal books.
- jonhendry 16y ago"eBooks are massively cheaper to distribute, yet we see a minimal discount. " Because distribution is a small amount of the cost of production.