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Old 03-25-2009, 08:01 PM   #56
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Originally Posted by Jim Lester View Post
First Sale doctrine applies for something you purchase, however as been pointed out previously in this thread, you never purchase an eBook, you license it. Read the terms of sales closely.

For instance if you go look at Amazon (just to pick on somebody - not saying that they are particularly good or bad about this)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...deId=200144530

(note: I added the bolding in the quote above)
There are many reasons why that is less than correct. Here are the top two:

that is an implicit agreement, and is difficult to enforce;

there are legal principles in the US that can be summed up as "if it looks like a sale, it's not a license".


This is an old topic here on MobileRead. Most of the older members here (including me) are burned out on the issue. I'm throwing these out there for someone else to think about and explain.
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