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Old 01-02-2021, 03:42 PM   #55
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
Could you explain to me how purchasing an ebook from Kobo and converting it to read on my Kindle or vice versa keeps the compensation due to the publisher and/or author (in many cases these days, the author is the publisher) from being paid.

Your attempt to conflate legally purchasing an ebook and format conversion as being equivalent to pirating ebooks is at best risible and at worst suggestive of an inability to reason.
I already asked him that. He was unable to explain, partly having his information just plain wrong (i.e. one license per device, which isn't the case) and partly having all the various laws, rules and terms pertaining to copyright, licenses and compensating authors mixed together in his head.
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