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Hmm I wonder how they're gonna manage the "lending to friends" part. I'm all for it but it should be interesting.
by mikegioia 17y ago
Hmm I wonder how they're gonna manage the "lending to friends" part. I'm all for it but it should be interesting.
- byoung2 17y agoI would imagine it is similar to the Zune's sharing feature. If you and I both subscribe to the monthly pass ($15 or so), you can listen to songs on my Zune that are also in the marketplace (for a limited time I think).
- chrischen 17y agoActually I'm against lending. And it's because it seems they are trying to pretend the e-book is a real book.
- netsp 17y agoYeah, I agree. A lot of the problems to do with digital content is because it is trying to behave like it isn't digital content. The "rules" of lending a book in physical format are determined by physics, psychology, & the like. People ahve learned to live with these. The "rules" of lending an ebook are going to be completely artificial, even if they mimic the dead tree rules. It's like trying to enforce a complicated regime of minimum orders per table that depends on the number of people, the days of the week, what items are ordered etc. That just makes people angry.
- buugs 17y agoWell it is a good idea from a book readers standpoint, my mother reads about 6 books a week and she and her friends and her mother-in-law all exchange books that they have bought this new feature could get them to buy an ebook reader.
- ironsam 17y agoCare to explain why that's bad?