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Originally Posted by Phogg
Yup.
Our local non-government funded library is looking to use lender readers. Fill them with author freebies and discounted books and cheaper indy publications. If the book was bought for that reader the publishers can do NADA about this approach.
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I'm a little shaky on the legality of this idea, (although I think it's brilliant).
Theoretically, could a library buy an eReader, setup an Amazon (or Kobo or what-have-you) account under the Library's name, purchase books for that reader and then publically lend the reader with individually purchased ebooks loaded?
Could that library then purchase and authorize five readers to simultaneously allow that one purchased book to be loaded and lent? As I understand DRM (Adobe anyways) can't a purchased book legally be on a couple of authorized devices without copyright infringement?
Surely the various "you've licensed this book, not bought it" agreements would disallow the library lending of the physical ereader even though the loaded book was legally purchased for said ereader?