Thread: Has Amazon cracked the subscription puzzle?
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Old 12-15-2011, 05:45 PM   #38
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
It might not be legal. Does Amazon have the right to gift eBooks that the right holders says no? I think Amazon is looking to be part a law suit.
If that is actually how Amazon structured it, i.e., treating each "lend" as a "sale" for which the publisher/author gets its standard cut, Amazon has purchased the book and is now lending its copy at a profit. Clearly, the purchaser cannot at one & the same time be the person to whom the book is being lent, because, well, Amazon is lending it to him. So Amazon more or less has to be the purchaser, doncha think?

So. Does this not put Amazon in the position of having to agree that we can, each of us purchasers of ebooks, "lend" copies of our purchased ebooks, at a profit? And if we can lend it once, why not twice? And why can't some entrepreneurial soul establish a webstore to facilitate the "lending?"

In short, has Amazondora opened an ebook box?

I look forward to the brouhaha, in which my portion will be to haha a lot.
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