[Elfwreck]

Originally Posted by stonetools

Er, you and I kniow that we aren't talking about husbands and wives sharing books or a someone lending a book to a co worker.

Are you saying I can easily & legally share an ebook with a co-worker?

I can easily share them with my spouse--because I don't do DRM--but according to the site TOS, that's not permitted either.

If these things are supposed to be allowed, why don't the sites selling ebooks say that OF COURSE you can share your ebooks with immediate family members and perhaps a few other people, rather than saying I "may not distribute them to other people using email, floppy, or any other method" or "This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient."

I am not buying extra copies for my spouse to read.

We would be talking about sharing ebooks with college buddies, Facebook friends, Twitter followers, listservs-in short , sharing ebooks the way we now share blog posts, jokes, emails, etc.

YOU would perhaps be talking about "posting the ebook on a blog for all readers." I was talking about "sharing a book with my close friends, like I have always done with print books." DRM impedes this.

Please indicate the DRM method that allows sharing with a small but amorphous group of people without threat of legal repercussion.