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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercutio01" data-source="post: 4678937" data-attributes="member: 37277">That depends entirely on the format of the book.  Kindle can display pdf.  If you buy a non-DRM PDF, you can loan or resell that if you want.It can read dozens of formats, not just the native azw.  PDF isn't going anywhere for quite awhile.Sure, the older books did.  I have not faith that my copies of The Dark Elf trilogy will survive half as long as the scrolls of Sappho.I'd like to know where you shop.  I can't even buy a new 28-page chapbook of poetry for $3.That's actually up in the air even in the publishing industry.  The modern interpretation is of a book as a medium, a paperbound version of an idea.  Writers sell books, sure, but those books have to say something, and that's where the definition breaks down.  Surely Neil Gaiman books are not F. Scott Fitzgerald books, but they are made of the same materials, flip the same, feel the same.  It's the message within the books that is different, and that's where digital media versions of "books" is changing the idea of what is a book.Where do you get that idea?  You don't pay a monthly fee.  It's not a rental service.  You pay for a digital book and you own it.  Plain and simple.  I can understand if you have a problem with the DRM inherent in the azw format.  That's where the argument with regard to mp3s comes down, and it's similar here.  The problem with the digital format and "reselling" is that when you sell a hardcopy book, it leaves your possession. There is only ever 1 copy of that book and it actually changes ownership.  The DRM is put in place to essentially mimic that.  Without it, you could resell the e-book to as many people as many times as you want.</blockquote>

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