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10-18-2012, 11:36 AM | #62 |
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They're using the word "display" in different ways. I'd interpret Kobo's use of "display" to mean "put on public show", whereas Amazon are using it in the sense of the display screen of the Kindle.
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10-18-2012, 12:43 PM | #63 |
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A copy of my email:
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So far I've got an automated reponse, and a note that my query has been escalated to their Tier 2 support. I'm a little bit surprised that they didn't have a canned answer for this query. Perhaps I should try a similar message to Amazon. |
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10-18-2012, 06:54 PM | #66 |
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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.
- Publishers are unlikely to want Amazon or BN to give us stated permission to share our purchases with anyone we allow to download from our account, without any limits. - Purchasers are likely to protest if Amazon officially threatens to enforce the level of restrictions the publishers want. - Amazon is probably somewhere in the middle, preferring not to have to draw and enforce a hard line. I read two things in the last few days that, if true, would seem to be Amazon's tightening things: 1. We can no longer register a kindle by simply entering its serial# from the MYK page. 2. Books downloaded from one account are only readable while the device is registered to that account, even on kindle devices, not just apps (?... I have two accounts and would check, but not sure which came from what account or have been cleaned...) |
10-18-2012, 07:05 PM | #67 |
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You know, I started this thread, simply to see if there was a way to lend a book to a friend using the facilities provided by the book owners / sellers. From a layman/dumb user perspective, it's just something you'd expect to be able to do, at least, after they sort the software out. I didn't imagine the ensuing discussion. Still it is interesting, and if nothing else, illustrates the mess the industry has gotten itself into.
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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. |
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Does that mean that, I, being your best friend of course , and already having an Amazon account should sign out my kindle (that I don't possess but it's for the demonstration's sake) and sign in with your account in order to read a book you, generously, lend to me ? Or is it a way to be signed in with multiple accounts on a kindle ? As far as I understand it, for the Kobo (Touch and Glo at least) you can be signed in just one account at a time.
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One would be most unlikely to allow even a best friend that kind of access to one's Amazon account. It seems a very reasonable policy. Anyone I trust with my account can read the books I've bought. I would also like to see a slightly less stringent lending policy, but I can see (given easy connectivity) why unlimited serial lending to anyone in the world with another Kindle could worry the publishers. |
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We need to keep a link to this post handy. (though I'm hesitant to flaunt it, for fear the publishers might make demands. ) |
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