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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
The copyright holders permission is implicitly given when they send the books to the store perhaps? Maybe not, as Amazon does not have peak inside without permission AFAIK and it wouldn't apply to used bookstores.
Different implied rights apply to books in a physical container such as paper though as I am sure you know.
Helen
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There's no "implicit permission" required for someone pick up a book and read a few pages.
A better example would be a book review on a website. Do you think a book reviewer should need the author's permission to quote a section (say a few paragraphs) of a book they are critiquing?
The basic idea that a book is the author's and that they have total control over its contents is an incorrect understanding of copyright. Copyright is a bargain between authors and the public; It is the authors that are granted certain rights to encourage creation, it is not the public at large that are granted certain rights. The public does not need to beg each author for an indulgence each time they wish to turn a page.
Amazon gets permissions from publishers and authors to include the contents of their books in Amazon's books search and to use "Peak Inside" because Amazon has contracts and business relationships with publishers and authors, not because it is necessarily legally required by copyright law.