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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I used to share some eBooks with my mother. But then, I know my mother would never share with anyone else. She shouldn't have known how. I do share with my wife and my mother-in-law. I have no moral issues with that at all.
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I've never understood why the eBook industry won't support transfer of the reading rights for a book from one person to another person (singular, not plural). You can easily pass along a printed book to a relative or friend, and you can easily pass along an analog music album or single. I understand the need to stop digital items from being mass duplicated and distributed without authorization. Napster showed that insanity. But we should be able to give or lend the rights to an eBook to someone else. We bought it and we should be able to pass it along to one other person at a time just like we can do with a printed book, and in doing so we would give up our rights to it. Unfortunately the industry doesn't want to see things that way. So I support the scofflaws who treat a digital book like they would a printed book and pass it along to one other person at a time. That is a right I believe we have earned through the centuries of printed books and that right should be carried over into the digital book world.