Thread: Do some publishers have any idea?
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Old 04-05-2019, 07:15 AM   #304
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
That strikes me as sophistry, I'm afraid. Clearly Amazon content is licenced for your use, not to provide reading matter for your friends, too.
I have explicitly asked Amazon about this. They're fine with me letting friends read my books so long as it's on my devices.

But I admit that I would not lend out a device in this way. I agree that although it follows the letter of the agreement, it violates the spirit.

And since I'm also happy to violate the letter by removing the DRM, so long as I keep to the spirit of the agreement, I feel I ought to keep to the spirit of the agreement over the letter in other instances too.

I would consider what I'd be willing to do if DRM removal wasn't available, but since in that case I'd have bought no DRMed ebooks from Amazon, it would be a bit pointless.
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