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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
If that's true, why do publishers have the option of not participating in the Kindle lending program?
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I don't understand how the question relates to the point.
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Why not allow people to transfer ownership of their Kindle libraries, transferring the book to someone new?
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Good question, I think that should be allowed. But again, that not related to the point of different rules for for different things. It's just a rule that doesn't seem to currently exist that we think should.
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This debate is not about "only one person at a time is supposed to be able to read a book." It's about publishers trying to implement "one buyer = one reader."
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I never thought that's what it was about, and that publishers may want that doesn't change or invalidate every other reason, motivation or effect.
Mother Teresa may have wanted to go to heaven, but we don't go around saying "Aww, that good stuff she did was just because she selfishly wanted to go to heaven."
(No, I am not saying publishers are like Mother Teresa.)
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No, Smashwords and some other stores have said it's against their TOS to loan your reader with books on it to another person--including your spouse. You're supposed to buy another copy if a second person is going to read the books, even on the same device.
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No they don't say that. You're reading way to much into it. Would they like to ENCOURAGE everyone who wants to read it to buy a copy in the interests of their authors and their whole business model? Sure, probably. Why wouldn't they?
Also it should be mentioned (again) that TOSes don't supersede the law. Elements that some folks try to pass off in TOS can be illegal.