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just searched my e-mail for my order receipts from Amazon. I didn't check every e-book order, there were over sixty of them, but the first ten all said "Sold by:" and then some seller, often Amazon, but also including various others publishers when the agency model applied.
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Yup, what they sold you was a license. You can sell licenses.
You might be interested to know that every software program that you use is purchased under a license. What's an ebook? Its not a physical object; its software. I might add that there is nothing intrinsically inferior about a license. Its just a different bundle of property rights. But it is different from a sale. |
You might be interested to know that I write licensed software for a living. When we sell a license, the contract specifies that it is a license, and the invoice has the license listed as a line item. When we buy additional licenses of Windows, Microsoft gives us an invoice with the word 'license' in the line details.
When I look at my order confirmation e-mails from Amazon, in the item detail above the "Sold by:' phrase, it lists the product, an e-book. When I go to Amazon and click the button "Need to print an invoice?", it gives me an invoice with line detail showing the e-books as a product. The word license is not there.