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Originally Posted by HarryT
Still dubious, TM. Let's take it to extremes, and see how it looks: a school buys 50 readers, buys one copy of a book needed for a particular subject, strips the DRM, and loads it onto all 50 readers which it then lends out to all the pupils who are studying the subject. Fair use? I don't think so.
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I didn't strip the DRM. I loan her my only spare ereader with the book loaded. While that book is out, I don't read it. This is no different than the olden days when I'd loan out a paperback.
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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
But Tubemonkey said he/she loaned the entire reader. From that I assumed that he had the copy of the book on that reader (not that he loaded it on twenty different readers). FWIW, Amazon already licenses one copy of a book to a "family of readers" so long as they are on the same account.
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That's exactly what I do; and I do it less than 10 times a year. What I'm attempting to do is to get them to get onboard with this new (to them) technology. Several of them loved it and then bought their own ereaders. New converts = more ebook sales. Oh, I are a "he"
