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Originally Posted by ottischwenk
Also very easy. If you read on two different types of devices (e.g. Kindle and Kobo), you need two different files - thus two licenses. And if you only bought one, then you withhold the amount for the second.
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That's not true. You can read the same epub on as many different devices as you want. On a Kobo, on a Nook, on a Pocketbook, in an app and so on. A Kindle is the only device you can't read it on, and that's not because the author wants to be paid twice, but because Amazon wants you to be solely in their ecosystem. The author is compensated no matter whether I read the book on a Kindle or on a Kobo. You're saying that violating the Amazon TOS by converting their book is the same as stealing from the author, but that's absurd. Do you buy your books twice, for the Kindle app and for the Kobo app? If you don't, aren't you stealing that imaginary second license from the author the same way?