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My ebooks are on my desktop, my laptop and on my Surface Pro 3 tablet. ALso I have 6 readers with quite a few books on each.
I am not likely to get up from my deathbed and wipe the contents, I will, if able be trying to squeeze in a few last books.
So my ebooks will go to my sister who doesn't read, or to some younger friends who are not likely to inherit even a few dollars from their parents. They don't much read either unless you count texting.
The readers will most likely go to the Salvation Army with books intact. Whatever computers I have will either be kept or sold or donated.
The people I know that read have their own ebooks or books and have expressed no interest in acquiring mine. Even if they did I have no wish to pass on something with a moral dilemma attached.
But I also feel no need to ensure everything gets wiped when I die.
I am sure that as time passes many people be leaving their readers as part of their general estate and these will find their way into thrift stores or estate sales or auctions or second hand shops.
Even if the estate goes to the government, will they take the time to make sure all files are wiped before auctioning them etc.? From computers maybe, but from ereaders?
I expect it will become a problem soon enough with so many people ordering online and having automatic logins to Amazon etc. enabled it almost seems like open season for the unscrupulous if they get hold of their computer.
My question is: What provisions can be made to thoroughly wipe licensed only material after your death and how many of us have made them?
I don't feel a strong moral obligation to do so as I doubt anyone will be leaping gleefully on my ebooks but maybe I should.
Helen
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