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Originally Posted by HarryT
The important difference is that when you "share" an ebook, you're creating an additional copy of it. Two copies of the book now exist where there was only one before. Hence copyright law comes into play: does the licence grant you the right to make that copy? Most bookstores licence ebooks "for your personal use only", and hence the answer is "no". You can make as many copies as you want for your personal use, but you can't make copies to give to other people.
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...except that Amazon absolutely allows sharing of ebooks with family members.
They even have a program called "family sharing" where I can link my Amazon account with that of a family member and that person can read all of my books and I can read all of theirs.
Shari