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Old 10-19-2012, 03:41 AM   #70
pdurrant
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This might be one of those questions nobody wants to risk having codified as a strict law or rule, but follow a “reasonable man" approach.
I agree that they probably don't want clarity here, as I suspect that the clear answer will be that only the account holder is permitted to read the ebooks.

I am now intrigued enough to follow up until I exhaust their patience or they give me a straight answer.

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... and the fact that those publishers won't even allow that highly-restricted sort of lending (a book can only be lent one time in its life, and then only for two weeks, during which time, only the lendee can read it, all managed by Amazon/BN) says a lot about what *they* would like the answer to pdurrant's question to be.
A very good point!
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