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Originally Posted by nowthenmobile
Could it be possible that what Amazon (and others) are selling are not eBooks but the license to read eBooks in a circumstance prescribed by Amazon (ie only on a Kindle)?
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Certainly terms & conditions often mention that the ebooks are licences, not sold.
However, US courts have often been of the opinion that if it's described as a sale, and acts like a sale, then it /is/ a sale, no matter what the small print says.
And all pages in the Amazon Kindle store have "Buy now" buttons. not "Licence now". Once you've bought a book, there's no expectation that Amazon are going to ask you to stop reading the book at some future date. It looks like a sale and acts like a sale.
Of course, the courts might decide differently, if anyone ever took it to court. I can't imaging Amazon ever doing so over an ordinary consumer's use of ebooks.