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Old 01-26-2011, 12:49 PM   #55
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Originally Posted by bhartman36 View Post
It's also not true, strictly speaking, that you can't resell e-books. I had given my mother my old Kindle 1, and she recently gave it back to me (because she got the Kindle 3). Even though it's de-registered, there are still some of her books on it, including A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides, which is a $13 book, and not marked in the Amazon tags as being DRM-free. Now, I'm not sure why that works. It might be because the books are on the SD card, and not on the device's main memory. Still, if I were to sell this Kindle (which I will be doing today), then the next person to get it could read the book, and I could include it in my description as an additional feature, increasing the resale value of the Kindle. Doesn't that count as reselling the book?
This practice violates the Amazon Terms of Service, for one thing. So, it is not really legal to sell a Kindle to another person and leave the books on it. It also uses up one of your licenses for that book. Books are not deleted from the device when you de-register it, which is why the book was still there.
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