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Originally Posted by caleb72
I have this issue myself. My sister and mother are both avid readers and up until now we have shared our paperbacks with each other.
In fact, just the other day my mother mentioned that she had run out of books and I made a mercy dash over to her with some choice paperbacks in my library that I thought she would like.
And then there's my partner. I just can't imagine having that little sharing relationship blocked by DRM etc..
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I'm not sure this is the same situation. I share ebooks with my son. I am allowed to have 12 devices associated with my account and publishers let me share among several devices. I am the account owner and my son accesses my account. He doesn't have a separate account. To the extent that publishers and ebooktailers permit multiple devices to be registered on a single account, I think they are knowingly permitting sharing among those devices. I think the view of publishers is that people will only share the accounts with a limited number of very close friends/family, which is how pbooks have traditionally been shared, and this is acceptable.