When I buy a paperback it is mine. I can give it to a friend or throw it in the fire, I paid for it and it is mine. Even if I get it at the library annual give away it is still mine and I can do what I want with it.
Except reproduce it and distribute it. I can sell it but I can not sell copies of it.
So far as I am concerned these are the exact rights I have to an ebook. If I want to give it to someone I'll do that and delete it from my Kindle collection. If the author doesn't like it and uses DRM then I won't buy her/his book. If he/she is really worried about piracy then they should stick to paper and let the enlightened authors have the ebook market.
BTW if you want an example of how free ebooks stimulate sales of related books check out His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik offered for free at Amazon. Her other three books in the series were not even visible on the Amazon best seller list, now all three are in the top 35 (Sci-Fi). That is some good money and a real good return on the risk taken to offer the book free. Of course I didn't buy any of them since Random House has infected them with DRM.
(That should calm the wolf for now since I mentioned both Amazon and Kindle.)
