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Originally Posted by WillysJeepMan
For some reason I think that even using the solution you propose you won't be as "golden" as you believe.
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You are correct. We have a license with Amazon, only. Amazon has their contracts with the publishers as well and it may be different for each publisher.
Our Kindle eBooks are merely a license from Amazon, NOT the publisher. Amazon can change the specs of our eReaders by altering the firmware, passing controls via WiFi and even changing the specifications of our DRM on the eBooks. For example, if one gave away one's Kindle eReader, eBooks left on it would probably NOT be readable anymore once ownership changed. The DRM would insure that. Also, I doubt if eBook files on one's PC can be interchanged with the same eBooks on the Kindle WiFi and still be readable. Those eBook files are probably coded to the licensed reading machine in some way.
Amazon is very generous and would probably compensate us if the publisher pulled the Amazon license on a particular eBook for any reason. Thus, with Amazon Kindles we have far better protection than with most other eReader publishers.
PBooks do not have these restrictions. However, if destroyed or lost, they also do not have the protection to re-download and read from one's archive kept on the Amazon servers.