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Originally Posted by slm
To make things even more confusing: you are really not even "licensing" from Amazon--they don't own the copyright. You are sublicensing from them--if their license terminates, you will lose access to the book. (This actually happens from time to time on Amazon).
So, I guess it should say that you are buying a sublicense.
(Frankly, I think they are all playing fast and loose with the US Supreme Court's first sale doctrine--you can't "license" a physical book--but no one else agrees with me.)
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Actually, you don't lose access to the book that you purchased even if the author pulls it from the site and doesn't allow it to be purchased anymore. (I know this is true, because I own an entire series of books that the author pulled from sale, and I can still download them to my Kindle from my account)
Shari