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Originally Posted by HarryT
Digital content is always licensed, not sold. That applies not just to ebooks, but to music downloads, and anything else in digital form.
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True, ebooks are not sold. But I'm not sure they are licensed, either.
IF they were licensed, then it would mean that the costumer paid to get a license to read said books. But they don't. From the article:
"Amazon.co.uk and its affiliates reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders at their sole discretion."
Since the EULA states that the license is absolutely empty - "we might or might not let the costumer read the book" - it can hardly be called a license. I believe the word license would require that the people who paid for the book had some sort of permission to read it.
What the costumer pays for is not a license, but more like a one-way gentleman's agreement.