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If Amazon has to enable reselling of ebooks, then surely the "used" book would have the same features.

• danShumway 7y ago
  Would it? I could see Amazon arguing that you're reselling the book, not the annotation storage/syncing -- and as a consumer I generally wouldn't have a problem with that argument. The book is the thing I want resale rights on, not Amazon account features. I'm curious, what does the Kindle do with 3rd-party book annotations right now? On Kobo, 3rd-party Epubs that are loaded onto the device are treated differently than books bought through your account. They won't be used for recommendations, and as far as I know, nothing syncs anywhere. If your device breaks, you can't re-download your 3rd-party files unless you personally backed them up somewhere. I don't care, I buy most of my books directly from independent sellers/authors and side-load them. But it is admittedly a pain, and I have on occasion bought from Kobo's store just because I wanted to be reading right now instead of hunting around for a USB cable.
  • emodendroket 7y ago
    It's pretty much the same. The annotations go into a text file on the device and that's it.