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Exactly, a limited feature is better than no feature at all.

And it can change over the time.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 6:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/Oct 23rd 2009 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/
I thought the Sony Reader allowed you to "authorize" 5 devices to read a book. I have never tested this, though, so I could be berry berry wrong.

-Pie]]>Oct 23rd 2009 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/
I was hoping for better from the Nook, but I guess it's business as usual for me. I'll buy my eBooks, strip the DRM, and not deal with all this foolishness.
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At the very least they should lending several times - 5 for example I think would be a good number - and no it`s not going to drive publishers out of business. And then also offer a way to extend that number further with a small payment, maybe 20% of the book's current price.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 6:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/]]>Oct 23rd 2009 7:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/
a. Lend a friend a recommended book.
b. Friend reads/likes the book.
c. Friend doesn't get to finish the book because of LendMe limitations.
d. To continue enjoying that book, said friend, has two options, buy a physical or digital copy of that book.
And of course they will purchase it from B&N.

Of course a full-fledged Lend feature would be good for us (the consumer), but sadly it's not about us, it's about what's in our wallet.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/
But I don't see it as a raw deal for consumers, either. How often to you think you'll be torn over the decision of which of your numerous friends with nooks you should lend a book too?]]>Oct 23rd 2009 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/Oct 23rd 2009 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/
I thought it would be really cool to be able to lend books out to random people on forums and get random books in return, but having a one time limit more or less means that most people will not be doing that.

This has reduced the chance of me purchasing it by a good chunk, although I am still very seriously considering it, especially if they confirm that it is running android.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/Oct 23rd 2009 6:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/Oct 23rd 2009 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/Oct 23rd 2009 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/
Decent enough idea, but it's still no good for us book-hoarders..
Mmm.. Paper!]]>Oct 23rd 2009 6:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/Oct 23rd 2009 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/Oct 23rd 2009 6:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/
People should stick to physical products or downloading stuff for free until companies get digital distribution right. How come I could buy Dan Brown's latest book for £4.99 (hardback!) from Amazon (*and* they paid for postage), yet it's £14.99 on iTunes to download.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 7:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/
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I am down with the idea that I can't read it while it is 'lent'.
That mimics perfectly the reality that tree-based books have always been.
But to say I can just lend it once for 14 days is utter crap.
I don't know why they continue to shoot themselves in the foot with this kind of short-sighted money grubbing crap.
And by 'they', I mean most every industry to enter the digital age.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/Oct 23rd 2009 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/Oct 23rd 2009 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/Oct 23rd 2009 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/
Dave is also right that letting you create a share group whom you can share without restrictions solves this issue to an extent. However, if you can change your group often then you get a new version of these lending websites all over again. Plus all these complicated stipulations would be bad for Nook sales.

I think BN did what they must to limit digital loop holes. They balanced piracy concerns with our rights as an owner a hell of a lot better than Amazon! One lend per book is in line with what I would do with paperback. The difference with the Nook being that the book is actually returned! ;)]]>Oct 23rd 2009 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/
How about one lending per dollar of the books cost? A $10 book can be lent out 10 times for example.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/Oct 23rd 2009 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/Oct 23rd 2009 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/Oct 23rd 2009 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/
Just look at that bullshit with the student discount of windows 7.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/
For me it seems like the only difference between the kindle and nook of real value is the navigation, and it is a significant one. But pricing, sharing (being on the same account my wife and I can share all of our kindle books in parallel), selection (they say over a million but as far as books I care about the selection is similar), the screen itself, ... are mostly the same.

My hope now is amazon announce a kindle that can compete in the 'flash' space. The nook is a real looker and kindle needs to keep up from that perspective and not let the hype overtake them.

Peter
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1-time sharing of the whole book for 14 days, you can't read it in the meantime;

UNLIMITED sharing of the first 1/2 of the book, you can read your copy, and if your friends like what they read in that first 1/2, they can purchase the rest of the book, either at an X% discount, or with you the sharer getting that X% as a commission (built in affiliate program). They could even be bastards and make the commissions for "store credit", which just leads you to buy more books. ;)

The reason this would work great is, unlike say individual songs or TV shows/movies, the first 1/2 of a book would still have great value to the recipient as a "weeder" of bad/ill-fitting books... And again, if I get the first few songs off an album and like them, I could still be buying a complete turd of an album... But this is rarely true of books in my experience.

Sometimes that free sample just isn't enough to get the gist. Plus, since this is still something you only do with "friends", the overall impact to blind sales (at least initially) would be minimal for the first few years until there was a lot of market penetration. It would mostly be a PR move/competitive feature advantage... And of course referral commissions probably wouldn't piss off any customers, and might even get a few people to buy the device and moonlight as mini-Oprahs. ;) ]]>Oct 23rd 2009 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/]]>Oct 23rd 2009 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/Dec 1st 2009 1:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/Oct 23rd 2009 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/
Uh, obviously.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/Oct 23rd 2009 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/I disagree. Let people resell or lend their eBooks.
This is one aspect in which DRM can actually help. ]]>Oct 23rd 2009 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/
IP advocates have already drastically modified the meaning of the word 'steal' to include an operation in which the original owner actually still has the thing that was stolen. I don't want the term 'lend' to be similarly redefined by a publishing industry that does not have the benefit of users at heart.

If B&N wants to maintain a 20th century business model, they should start selling sculptures. I figure they've got at least ten years before consumers get hold of 3D printers and scanners, and force them to invent new ways to make money on Rodan downloads.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/It'd be nice though if they allowed recalling a loaned book remotely :)]]>Oct 23rd 2009 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/I don't see publishers willing to allow this.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/barnes-and-noble-nook-lend-me-feature-is-severely-limited-assumes/Oct 23rd 2009 2:17PM