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Originally Posted by Fbone
I was referring to Amazon, B&N, Kobo, etc. where publishers and authors permit up to 6 devices at the same time.
Regarding Smashwords and Fictionwise, it's the price we pay to have a DRM-free ebook. Personally, I'd rather buy from Amazon, B&N, Kobo, etc. Casual sharing permitted.
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Kindle terms:
"Content Provider grants you a non-exclusive right to view, use, and display such Digital Content an unlimited number of times, solely on the Kindle or a Reading Application or as otherwise permitted as part of the Service, solely on the number of Kindles or Other Devices specified in the Kindle Store, and
solely for your personal, non-commercial use."
Bolding added. They let you register extra devices, but nothing in the TOS says you can let other people look at them.
Kobo:
"The download of these literary works is intended for Kobo's
Registered Users' personal and non-commercial use. Any other use of literary works downloaded from kobobooks.com is strictly prohibited.
Registered Users may not modify, transmit, publish, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, perform,
display, or in any way exploit,
any of the content of these literary works, in whole or in part."
Again, bolding added. The TOS says the book is only for view by the person who bought it. The allowance of multiple registered devices is presumably for that person's use; the TOS doesn't allow showing it to anyone else.
Barnes & Noble:
"Barnes & Noble grants User a non-exclusive, revocable license to download and make
personal, non-commercial use of the Barnes & Noble eReader Software solely for the purpose of downloading, purchasing, accessing, reading and using Digital Content"
Same thing. The TOS only allows for the buyer to have access. (B&N, unlike the others, insists on the right to remove your access to the content.)
In all of them, there's a lot of tolerance for casual sharing, especially within a household or close family members, but none of the terms actually allow that.