library loan caps on ebooks.
As ereaders and tablets proliferate, publishers will be confronting some of the same challenges the music industry faced following the explosion of mp3 filesharing.
It ain't gonna be pretty.
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specifically, limiting legitimate access will increase use of other markets.
I'm reminded of JK Rowlings refusal to issue one of the Potters in digital form. Some fan community marshaled their resources, OCR'ed the entire book and had it online the day it was released.
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