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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
