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Originally Posted by barryem
I've sent quite a few books to my Kindles via Amazon using Send to Kindle and directly emailing them. These are books purchased from several sources and the few that have DRM have been removed.
I'm nervous about doing this on any kind of scale, and by scale I mean more than one every few weeks. I'm not sure I'm breaking any law doing this although I'm not sure I'm not, either. I suspect that I'm violating various terms of service.
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The only law or ToS you are potentially violating would be when you remove the DRM itself.
Note that Baen has always offered you the ability to have your books emailed to your Kindle. But they don't use DRM.
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Anyway that was mentioned a few times in this thread and I'm wondering if anyone feels that this is risky. I don't want to get in trouble with Amazon. I buy about 98% of my books from them.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Or is this even a proper question to ask here. And if it's not, please just delete it. But if it is I'd like to know what people think about it.
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It isn't risky, lots of people do that.
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I should say that the majority of the books I send to my Kindle via Amazon's conversion are legitimately purchased somewhere.
Barry
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Now, this is the one thing that might get you in trouble, here or anywhere else. The fact that you feel the need to qualify that "most" of the books you send to Amazon PDOCs are not pirated.
Implying that you are publicly acknowledging some of the ones you send to Amazon PDOCs are pirated, and perhaps that some or more than some of the books you
don't send to Amazon PDOCs are pirated.
We don't really approve of piracy around here.