You can legally share your Ebooks with a friend

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Share your favourite ebooks with a friend

ValoBox is a London-based startup by two young entrepreneurs, Anna Lewis and Oliver Brooks, who previously launched the online literature community CompletelyNovel. It provides an alternative to the closed shop-device system of Kindle, Nook and Kobo by operating on the open web, so you can read the books on any internet-connected device (which is currently no problem at home, but might be on the tube or a plane). As the company gets off the ground, it will be possible to save the books offline too, with plans to add full downloads as soon as negotiations with publishers' digital rights departments permit. This stuff is hard, but attempts to break the corporate hegemony on ebooks deserve all the help they can get.

For Christmas, ValoBox and Constable & Robinson have launched giftanebook.com, which allows you to purchase an ebook and then give a friend access to it. Not only is that something you can't do on Amazon, it might pave the way towards some genuine alternatives, for the benefit of readers, publishers, workers and the Treasury alike.

http://valobox.com/

[Sly]

I have a feeling they will get not get any decent publishers and this will die quickly. They could try a self published route with first-time authors, etc, but they would not be able to pull that off without good funding/investors.

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Originally Posted by Sly

I have a feeling they will get not get any decent publishers and this will die quickly. They could try a self published route with first-time authors, etc, but they would not be able to pull that off without good funding/investors.

Was listening to them talking on the radio and it is very clever marketing, They have also seen an increase in sales

[Wellness Cash]

Amazon has been doing this for years.

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Originally Posted by Wellness Cash

Amazon has been doing this for years.

Share your favourite ebooks with a friend

A welcome new initiative by startup ValoBox threatens Amazon's dominance of ebooks

http://www.theguardian.com/books/201...t-share-friend

Its pretty strange if you go into a bookshop and buy a book once you have read it what do you do with it ? most people will either give it to somebody else to read or give it to a charity or throw it away, has this ever hurt the writers and the publishers in years gone by ? Yet with ebooks publishers dont want people to share them, the mind boggles !!

[TheSquealer]

So is the thought here "wow, after so many years, no one has thought of this" or are there glaringly obvious reasons relating to licensing that will prevent any real publishers from getting on board as sly is suggesting. I'm going with sly. Not because he's smart, but because he's nice to snuggle with.

furthermore, amazon or B&N and others could crush them in hours had they ever did the same thing, so Ii's a pointless business model. I feel like I read this board and I'm one of like 3 sane people here.

[VinceRuth]

Nice post and great infor for me !