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Originally Posted by haertig
That would be an interesting fact to find out. My process is, buy book (usually from Amazon), strip DRM on the way into Calibre, sideload to my Kindle out of Calibre.
Now, if I go online with my Kindle and Amazon scans what is on it, if they find the book I bought (where I followed the sequence above) and call it "pirated", then their counts are going to be off. Of course, they may call me a pirate for doing the above. But I don't consider that pirating. It's my book that I paid for and I don't want to end up getting screwed again, like B&N did to me.
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Amazon doesn't consider that pirating. I called them about it a few years ago. I live in a small town and I don't have a car so I depend on Amazon and I worried that they'd shut me down for things like this. So I called their support and asked about it and I was told it was fine.
A couple years later, because of some discussion in this or some other forum, I called them again. This time I got a new support guy who said he'd ask around about it and call me back. He called back the next day and said that not only does no-one at Amazon have a problem with that, a lot of them do it as well.
The specific thing I asked about was removing DRM and sending the book to my library so I could avoid the license limit since I read on a number of devices. They saw nothing wrong with doing that.
That's not to say that this isn't reflected in any statistics they're maintaining such as the ones under discussion here.
Barry