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Originally Posted by elemenoP
You try giving your Amazon DRM-ed ebook to someone else, and see how that goes for you. You don't really own an ebook, you have licensed it under the terms of wherever you bought it from.
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Without going into the legal details, that is not a correct characterization of the transaction between the customer and Amazon. It is, to a high degree of probability, a sale, no matter what Amazon tries to tell you. (Most lawyers will tell you that, although some won't, because, after all, we need a controversy to make a living...)
But your comment highlights something about the Amazon "lending" program - that is, that Amazon seems to be talking out of both sides of its mouth. It apparently is telling the publishers "here's your cut on the "sale" of the book to our customer" while at the same time saying to the customer "here's your free bennie for joining Amazon Prime."
This Will Not Stand! (Though who it sits down on remains to be seen.)