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Originally Posted by daffy4u
Bob was responding to that same bit of text I quoted (I used it in another thread).
It doesn't make sense that Amazon would limit the number of Kindles a person or an institution could purchase and add to their accounts (why limit sales?). It does make sense that they have to restrict the number of Kindles that can share the same content. 100 Kindles sharing one $9.99 book would cause an uproar with publishers and authors or require special licensing. Having to purchase several copies of that same book to share seems to be a good compromise.
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Then again, it doesn't make much sense at all to allow unlimited Kindles on one account, but limit the books that can be shared to six. Amazon would have to keep track of two sets of numbers for every account, and would have to track how many books were out for each account .... they would also have to figure out a way to check the books in and out so that people on the same account could allow others to read a book once it was off of their Kindle.
I have found absolutely no credible information that provides that there can be an unlimited number of Kindles on the same account. The only information I have seen states that six Kindles may be registered to the same account, and that those six Kindles may share books.
To have the other setup, well, I don't see how it would work without having book management set up more like a library, which it isn't. Further, I can't imagine any institution purchasing 1,000s of Kindles on the same account. Keep in mind that the person who has the book would be able to purchase and download new books .... what institution is going to allow people to more or less run amok with the institutional credit card buying books for themselves?
No ... sorry, but that makes zero sense to me.