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Originally Posted by nekokami
For those of you who feel that owning a paper book doesn't "entitle" a reader to an e-book, I have a question: if you have legally purchased an ebook in a non-DRM format, should you be allowed to read it on more than one device, e.g. a laptop and a PDA? Or is that entirely governed by the license attached by the publisher?
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A publisher that applies DRM is free to dictate how their book is read. (And you, in turn, are free to not buy it.)
A publisher that publishes without DRM is by definition letting you read it however you want, including on multiple machines. They are also counting on your sense of honesty and ethics and leaving it up to you to possibly share it with some, but not to disseminate it widely throughout the web and potentially deny them a significant income.
And before you ask: Yes, this is what I believe in, too.