Thread: You are not the owner of Amazon Ebooks
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Old 05-13-2014, 04:02 PM   #125
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Originally Posted by ApK View Post
Those words I cut....if you think people won't understand your intent unless you use them....save them for your marketing materials, keep them out of the actual license terms!
The thing is, I want people to think of ebooks as Real Things, and to intuitively connect the digital content with the analog content they're used to. There's not a massive piracy problem with pbooks, but there is a sense of ownership that comes with those that people don't get with ebooks. I like that sense of ownership; it reinforces that you have bought a thing and, within the bounds of copyright, can do as you please with it. Loan it to a friend, leave it to an heir, sell it to a stranger - this copy is yours.

The biggest complication that I haven't figured a way to handle is, of course, cloud ownership records. If someone buys a book with this license on certain platforms, they may be unable to "disown" it, and they certainly can't transfer ownership. In that respect, they would be unable to fulfill the terms of the license (deleting all their copies), but through no fault of their own. That's one reason I want to take a closer look at O'Reilly's language...but then, they have their own store.
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