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Originally Posted by HarryT
Unless the "lending" takes place under circumstances permitted by the publisher (eg Amazon have pretty flexible permitted sharing scenarios), I'd say that there's a strong argument to be made that the scenario you describe does constitute copyright infringement. You've given a copy of the book to a person who isn't licensed to read it. The infringement takes place the instant you do that: it doesn't matter how long or short a period of time they retain it for.
I'm sure that not everyone will agree with me (I strongly suspect that you won't), but that's the way it looks to me.
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Since Amazon has already said that "
they're happy for anyone to read your books, so long as they do it on an authorised device" it would seem that they are the ones guilty of any copyright infringement, if any actually exists.
Shari