Re: Amazon Kindle and Fedora
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 18:04 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> Sounds good, however my objection to the Kindle business model is that
> you can't lend a book to a friend, something I do all the time with
> printed books.
>
> poc
>
That depends on where you buy books. I buy mainly from Baen's web
site. They do not use copy protection on their books. They have
found that your being able to lend an ebook to a friend actually
increases the sales of the dead tree versions. They even give some
of their books away for free.
Naturally, but unless I want to limit myself to Baen's catalogue that's
not really relevant. A mainstream book from Amazon is still going to be
DRM-encumbered.
poc