The author probably wouldn't want to give away free copies to everyone. If somebody came up with a tool that could scan your kindle library and allow the autho

The author probably wouldn't want to give away free copies to everyone. If somebody came up with a tool that could scan your kindle library and allow the author to license and distribute new copies if you already bought the book on Kindle that would be legal. As a coordination issue between platforms, publishers an authors, this might be impossible to do at scale.