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Ahem .... ok, so the first guy I talked to was wrong ... but in a practical sense he was right. Let me explain.
I talked to the supervisor. He said that you could register an unlimited number of Kindles to a single account. So, Daffy, what you got in writing was correct.
However .... and this is why I say that in a purely practical sense the other guy was correct too .... say you have 12 Kindles. You purchase Moby Dick from Amazon. It has six licenses and you download it to 6 Kindles. There is no way to remove those licenses from those Kindles .... so there is no way to read Moby Dick on the other Kindles except to purchase another copy of Moby Dick. If you deauthorize one of the Kindles, then it won't have access to any of the purchases on that account .... although you would be able to then put the additional deauthorized license on one of the other Kindles. So, really, the only practical way to share books in that case would be to physically swap Kindles around.
However .... and this is why I think the other answer, while technically wrong was a more elegant solution. If you limit the number of Kindles on any one account to six .... say you have a "Robin Hood" account and a "Moby Dick" account. You purchase one set of books for one set of Kindles and another set of books for the other set of Kindles, then you just authorize and deauthorize the sets between accounts in order to share the various books.
Although, no more than six Kindles could be reading (or storing) any one book on any one account at the same time.
Whew.
He did mention that some books have less than six licenses. Which prompted me to ask him if that information was given to the purchaser prior to purchase. He said that at present it wasn't. I told him to tell the powers that be that it should be made available to the user ... and very clearly, and prior to purchase, because that would factor into the purchaser's actual cost of the book ... and that they would eventually get some really loud, angry and valid complaints about that information not being made available up front.
I also told him that these issues were getting a LOT of discussion on the Mobileread Forum, and that it was extremely important that people from this site be given all of the information, also very clearly, so that we didn't accidentally mislead other people who come to this forum (1) trying to decide what to buy or (2) troubleshooting problems.
He agreed with me ... because if the members of the Kindle Community don't have the right answers, then we end up doing a disservice to the rest of the community.
Although, since the backups are keyed to the serial number of each Kindle .... if the book went off the shelves, as in no longer available, you would not, I repeat NOT be able to play the authorize/deauthorize game to get that book on one of the Kindles it was not originally authorized for.
OK .... now my head hurts.
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