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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: GilloD on December 16, 2009, 11:35:18 PM

Title: Book lending on the Nook is hilarious
Post by: GilloD on December 16, 2009, 11:35:18 PM

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This came up when we were playing online the other night. I mentioned to Gabe that the LendMe feature didn't extend to all books, and he was surprised to learn this, as "lending" a book digitally removes it from your device. It is, in many ways, like lending a person a real book. I suggested to him that this was precisely what they didn't like - you have to warp your mind to perceive it, to understand why a publisher of books would hate the book as a concept, but there you have it. They don't like that books are immutable, transferable objects whose payload never degrades. A digital "book" - caged on a device, licensed, not purchased - is the sort of thing that greases their mandibles with digestive enzymes.

What the fuck.  :lol

Title: Re: Book lending on the Nook is hilarious
Post by: Rman on December 17, 2009, 12:49:42 AM

Weird.  I thought it works how the Zune worked, giving them a time bound license.

Title: Re: Book lending on the Nook is hilarious
Post by: chronovore on December 17, 2009, 02:11:05 AM

Yeah, I thought it was a two-week freebie loaner, then poof. Is that the Kindle?