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Originally Posted by ottischwenk
Again, if you have a license, then you have a license to use it on one device. If you want to read this file on a second device, you have to get a second license.
The author is paid for each of these licenses.
The exceptions to this are the family options that some shops offer, but then only for the devices they sell.
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The author is paid in exactly the same way and the same amount, no matter what I do with the file afterwards. It would be stealing if I emailed the book to other people or uploaded it to a file-sharing site, i.e made it accessible to other people and leave the author with fewer buyers. On what personal device I read the book after paying for it has nothing to do with the matter. It's against Amazon TOS, because Amazon obviously wants me to buy the book from them. The author gets paid the same way whether I buy their book from Amazon and read on a Kindle or convert it and read on a Kobo.
With epubs it's not even a question. You can sideload the same epub to your Kobo, your Nook or your Pocketbook without modifying the file. Removing the DRM and/or converting after the purchase may violate the copyright and the TOS of the seller, but again the author gets their money in either case. You seem to have the violation of TOS, the violation of copyright and a criminal offense like stealing all mixed up. They're not the same thing.