MIT Press now lets you rent a book. Is this model a more “honest” approach to retailing e-books? Downloading a book on Kindle usually means that you’ve purchased that title. But the Amazon Cloud might part and decide to remove your treasured and annotated copy from your Kindle. Hmmmm. Would they actually come to my home and remove a book from my bedside table? I don’t think so.
It appears that I’m actually renting a book from Kindle, not buying it. But what if I want to save certain passages in the Kindle book or the MIT book rental? I’m beginning to imagine lines of people at copying machines with their e-book readers making hard copies of the pages they don’t want to lose. Will I need to purchase a pocket-size e-book reader copier?
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