Thread: Does your will include gifting your ebooks?
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Old 01-11-2015, 05:29 AM   #91
HarryT
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
The only way I can legally read an in-copyright ebook is under a licence from the copyright holder. When I buy an ebook, I’m buying a licence from the copyright holder. The terms and conditions of the ebook store where I buy the ebook set out the terms of the licence, but the licence itself must be with the copyright holder, directly or indirectly. No-one else can give me the required permission.

So whether the ebook store continues to be in busines or not does not affect my licence.
Agreed. All I was saying is that the retailer may grant you additional rights, such as sharing books with people under the terms of Amazon's "Family Sharing" programme.
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