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Originally Posted by Catlady
We share books all the time, without contracts, without permission of the author or publisher or bookseller, as long as they're physical books. The question--obviously--is why do we need a contract and a laundry list of dos and don'ts to share a book when it's in digital form.
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Mild Thunderbolt #1
We don't need contracts, the authors/publishers do.
I am pretty sure they would be at the most mildly displeased if you share your ebook with one person at a time, and that person returned it to you and deleted all copies without sharing it with anyone else. Or shared it with someone else with equal integrity, so that only one copy was at all possible to be read at a time. Not saying that any number of people cannot read that one copy as long as their is only one copy, just like in paper books.
If this is the case, and you are totally sure it is the case with all lendees, then my personal blessings upon you.
Helen