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Originally Posted by Alisa
Someone also posted on the Kindle forum the other day that the Ebay seller they bought their used Kindle 1 from had left several Amazon books in the memory. They weren't removed when they registered. This to me says they're not paying any attention to what we have loaded. This may change.
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As I understand their licensing of the books, it seems that with a single account, you can have up to 6 reading devices locked to a single book, and un-registering the Kindle doesn't give back one of the locks for the book. Essentially they have created a system where you have paid for 6 node-locked (where a Kindle or iPhone equates a node) copies of the ebook. Assuming you didn't break the DRM on the ebooks, you should be within both your legal and moral right to sell a Kindle with Amazon purchased ebooks already installed since they are Amazon licensed for that device.
Interestingly, this also gives you back your right of first-sale for the ebooks, but from a device package level. You should be able to ebay the Kindle with a number of books from your Amazon library to recoup your investment of the ebooks. A question for Amazon would be, if you exhausted your 6 copies of the book, can you buy it again under the same account to give you another 6 digital copies?