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Originally Posted by Rylon
"But!" I hear someone say, "What about copyright?" Good question. There is a reason all books contain a copyright notice, so that readers are notified that their purchase of the book is subject to the restriction on copying the book. It's a contract. The reader agrees to buy the book on the condition that he or she won't make duplicates. It works like any other restriction on transferring property. The reader is, of course, welcome to negotiate with the copyright holder a different arrangement, but that's the way most books are sold.
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But we don't need to copy books anymore... We just need to be able to access them.
It seems to me that buying an ereader and "legally" purchasing a number of books and then selling the reader with those legally purchased books on it, will be legal. No different than paper as far as I can see. The author is not compensated of course, which is the whole reason for copyright??