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When someone buys a book, they are also buying the right to resell that book, to loan it out, or to even give it away if they want. Everyone understands this.
by Create 17y ago
When someone buys a book, they are also buying the right to resell that book, to loan it out, or to even give it away if they want. Everyone understands this.
Jeff Bezos, Open letter to Author’s Guild, 2002
You may not sell, rent, lease, distribute, broadcast, sublicense or otherwise assign any rights to the Digital Content or any portion of it to any third party, and you may not remove any proprietary notices or labels on the Digital Content. In addition, you may not, and you will not encourage, assist or authorize any other person to, bypass, modify, defeat or circumvent security features that protect the Digital Content.
Amazon, Kindle Terms of Service, 2007
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/11/19/the-future-of-reading http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/11/19/the-future-of-re...
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
- danw 17y agoWell at least he's trying to persuade the industry to change and become more open. They're already selling some kindle books at a loss because publishers want to charge Amazon the same price for an ebook as a physical one.