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Originally Posted by murg
Hmmm...Yet, when I 'purchase' an ebook from the publisher, they insist that it is a license and not a sale...
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How often do you buy from a publisher, as opposed to a retailer?
See, most retailers make it (legally) clear (in their TERMS OF SERVICE) that what *they* sell is reading licenses.
The issue is most big traditional publishers bookkeep ebook income as sales instead of licenses to the retailers while relying on language in the (vintage) contracts that talks about both sales and licensing as separate things with separate rates. And then, there is Agency, where they license retailers to act on their behalf instead of selling the books to the retailers.
There are many different kinds of licensing in business and over the years some publishers have played games under licensing terms.
This is no slam dunk but it is very much past time that somebody called them on it.
Check this:
http://kriswrites.com/2013/09/25/the...nts-yet-again/