Quote:
Originally Posted by Harmon
Nate the great is right smack dab on. Amazon can call it a license - heck, they can call it a cow - but it's a sale.
|
Like others on the forum being there, done that with license vs sale, but I am still confused by what you perceive the difference to be between a license and a sale.
For me:
sale means first and first foremost right to resale, give away, get rid without any questions/strings attached
license means you have to ask permission for anything you do with the stuff in question outside of the narrow terms you signed on for
In particular "sale" of *x* usually means there is a legal market for used *x* as in used cars, clothes, houses, books, dvd's, cd's, games, magazines, even the odd newspaper of collectible interest...
Where is the secondary (legal) market for ebooks? How do you even give your ebook away legally to someone?
If it smells and acts like a license, well you can call it anything you want, it's still a license