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The fact that you aren't buying the e-book, but instead paying the fee for a very restrictive licence, needs to be made much clearer to e-book users.

This would mean Amazon and Barnes & Noble using the wording 'license this book' instead of 'sell', 'sale', 'purchase' or 'buy'; instead of a price, you pay a fee.

Nudges, and informed consumers, FTW.

Why not just word it as "Read this book"? You pay $X to read the book, you can't lend it, copy it, re-sell it -- just read it (and re-read it if you want).

That'll probably result in less conversions for Amazon (compared to "Buy this book").

Except it's only a dollar cheaper than getting the actual, physical book shipped to your house the very next day (without any S&H charges) via Amazon Prime.

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