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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Lack of ability to share content with spouses on a different account, or share with children without giving them access to purchasing, is one of the objections to DRM. Lack of inheritability hasn't been addressed in court yet (AFAIK) but I expect it to show up in the next few years, and I expect Amazon to say "no, those aren't inheritable; the license ends when the purchaser dies," which I expect to be held up by at least a lower court, followed by a complaint to a higher court demanding access to the deceased's notes and bookmarks, if not the purchased content.
I wouldn't be surprised if an inheritance case became the first real test of the purchase-vs-license status of ebooks.
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That sounds like curing the symptom while ignoring the disease.
For Amazon's intents and purposes, ebooks are single use/user items. You are allowed to read them as often as you like, but there is no point which the reader is able to say I have finished reading this book and will now begin to read it again.
The lending system recently implemented is a joke. Turning single use items into double use items, and was most likely added as a conciliatory measure, possibly to give weight to Amazon's own arguments in this future legal case you propose.
