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Originally Posted by Giggleton
What that sounds like is me simply moving my bookshelf from my room to my front yard and placing a sign that says read what you will.
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Not really unless you photocopy your books many times and stick them out on a shelf outside.
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You might say that with physical books only one person can read a book at a time, but it is definitely possible for one to hold the book and another to read over that person's shoulder.
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Possible, but very impractical, very uncomfortable for the person reading over the shoulder and you'd both have to read at the same rate or one would have to wait for the other to catch up.
Whatever the case I personally hate people reading over my shoulder... *ugh* gives me the chills.
Also handing out copies doesn't require being in the same physical location to read the book.
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I am of course simply making a weird analogy, as you have just done.
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You are, but I was pointing out that copying and distributing books for all (apart from the exceptions I stated) is illegal.
I made a specific point of copyrighted material, much of what we buy out there IS copyrighted.
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Getting back to the reality, If I host my ebooks on a personal server and allow browser based cloud access to them, but for only one user at a time, would that be allright??
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Not being an expert on copyright law, I can't accurately, absolutely answer that question.
I'm guessing you probably wouldn't be allowed to (personal use only or something with ebooks?), but maybe someone else can answer that question properly.
A very interesting idea tho.
How would you secure it so people can't just take copies of all your books? If you allowed browser based access to the books it would be easy to rip.