I have no desire to resell ebooks.
I have no real problem with the current DRM situation -- buying from Kobo or Amazon, being able to authorise/deactivate/reauthorise up to five devices to have access to these ebooks, unlimited downloading of these copies to these devices, etc.
I have no problem with folks who really want to share DRM ebooks buying a second device to share them on. Ereaders are becoming so inexpensive this isn't much of a barrier if share with friends regularly.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
And yet, on the related question of whether an ebook can be inherited, I'm firmly on the side that says, "Of course ebooks can be inherited".
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This is an interesting point: what happens if a husband and wife have separate Amazon accounts (funded by his and hers credit cards), and one of them dies? or goes blind? Access to those ebooks disappears for the surviving spouse.
Part of the solution might be a mechanism which allows ALL the titles in an account (no cherry-picking) to be transferred to another account. In effect, one account is closed and all the goods appear, still fully DRMed, elsewhere.
Interestingly, in principle, that would be a way to donate to libraries, too. (Except libraries may have delete the copies 26 uses later; and the current Overdrive system can't handle this.)