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Originally Posted by Quexos
What about when you sell your ebook reader to someone else. Can they buy books with it ? I mean your reader was bound to your account so won't DRM prevent your reader from being associated to the buyer's account when he creates it to buy books ?
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No, you sign out of your account, can even do a factory reset of your reader to be sure that your information/account isn't present on the device, then you can sell it on. Also you can de-authorize the reader from your Adobe Editions account as well.
So if you do sell it on, or give it away, the new owner does a set-up on the device and sign into Kobo - or create an account if they don't have one - and then can buy straight from the device if they want or online/download to device wirelessly.
Essentially you divorce your reader from the account(s) attached to it and it's ready to go with someone else if you wish. As far as I know all readers can a way to do this. With the Kindle you simply de-authorize it in your Amazon account and the new owner can authorize it with their Amazon account. I believe all readers have there own version of this, but from using a Kobo it seems you sign out of Kobo and can sign into another account easily for downloading books if you have it, and for Adobe Editions bought from non-Kobo stores you de-authorize the device from your ADE account. This can be done directly on the Kobo itself or by connecting your Kobo and launching ADE and de-authorizing through their software.