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Originally Posted by Hitch
You raise a good point. We should be clear here, distinguishing between Amazon's policies--which are, naturally, aimed at profit, and copyright law, which is targeted to protect the profit of the creator of the books in question. They're not the same, and I would imagine, on more than one occasion, diametric opposites. Just because Amazon promotes the idea of doing something--e.g., lending books on devices--doesn't mean that it's QED compliant with the letter of copyright law.
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Hitch,
Consider a moment how ebooks are used. They reside on the seller’s server. The customer makes a purchase and a copy of the ebook is sent to their reading device. At a future date they perhaps want to use a different reading device or app, so again another copy of the book is created.
It’s inherent in the nature of ebooks that they need to be copied (often multiple times) to be used, and hence a licence is required which determines under what circumstances such copies can be made. Copyright law on its own is insufficient.