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Originally Posted by Barbara1955
Few authors even earn a living wage.
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How does giving away copies of their book help them? Are you guaranteeing that the person who purchases your used ereader would never, ever purchase any of the books you left on it?
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Originally Posted by Barbara1955
I PAID for the books...No Author was cheated & I Never added onto the fair cost of the e-reader just cause I leave books on it.
example: Kobo Aura 6" ...comes with cover cord booklet box 14 gig sd card AND 4000 ebooks... price $50.. So How am I cheating authors?? NOT
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Note: I am addressing copyrighted ebooks and not public domain/non-copyright content in this message.
And strictly speaking, you did not pay for the books. You paid for a license which allows
you to read the books. Looking through several EULAs, phrases such as "solely for your personal, non-commercial use", "is intended only for such Customers’ personal and non-commercial use", and "sell, rent, lease, redistribute, broadcast, transmit, communicate, modify, sublicense, transfer, assign any Content to any third party including with regard to any downloads of Content ... except as specifically permitted and only in the exact manner provided".
It's rather hard to see any legal differences between your actions and those of a torrent site that makes copyrighted material available for the cost of reading some advertising.
Admittedly as someone who routinely removes DRM, format shifts and makes backup copies of my ebook collection, I am not really in a position to cast the first stone. OTOH, those actions are done for my sole benefit and do not involve a third party. Under Canadian law, I am not liable for statutory damages for removing DRM for my private purposes. Given that I purchased the ebook, the copyright holder has not lost any money and the monetary damages would be non-existent.