[ATDrake]

Originally Posted by stonetools

THe point of course, is that if your word meant anything, you would comply with the Smashwords T& C and not send copies of what you bought to others in violation of the author's license terms.

You do realize that the example I provided was for when an AUTHOR'S OWN WORK ON AMAZON contained a Smashwords-like T&C NOTICE INSIDE THE BOOK telling you to respect their work by buying ONE COPY PER READER, regardless of what Amazon's device limits ostensibly allowed?

And I was pointing out exactly that vs Fbone's automatic assumption that each and every book could be shared on up to 6 "friends and family" devices (unlimited with B&N purchases)?

Originally Posted by stonetools

FBone is completely right, the amazon T&C as written is more liberal than SW's- if you actually stand by your word
But hey, SW is DRM free and that trumps everything.

Huh. Apparently you didn't read that far before you decided it was a good platform for you to launch a attempted chastising finger-wag.

And that despite the direct evidence against in the very words of mine that you quoted right before you went straight into your ~you should be ashamed of yourself; trying to justify what you conveniently want to do as trumping everything that the rights-holder/retail provider says everyone should do with the item in question~ *tsk-tsking*.

Here, I'll quote it again so you can actually read it this time:

Originally Posted by ATDrake

And that really depends on the assumption that whoever puts up the book in question will automatically sanction you to have the allowed 6 devices include other peoples' devices.

Bonus quotage from the follow-up passage which comprise the very last two paragraph at the bottom of my post:

Originally Posted by ATDrake

If one really respected that boilerplated request as much as one would the SW/FW T&C, then one would then pay for extra copies on Amazon as well, to comply with that.

At least if you bought the old Smashwords edition of her book, you got all your copies DRM-free.

Notice the plurals. Copies. And paid-for extra copies, no less.

And you keep telling everyone to read to the end of that library article and consider things in context before doing jumping to conclusion-based rants...

~Perhaps you should be ashamed of yourself; trying to justify what you conveniently want to do as trumping everything that you say everyone should do with an item in question.~ *tsk-tsk*