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Originally Posted by scveteran
Legally, the author, publisher, or seller can each restrict what you do with it. It is in the license when you purchase the ebook.
I know that some on this site may not like that, but it is the law.
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No, they can't. There's no such thing as a "purchase license." If you purchased it--instead of rented it or licensed-it-for-use--you get to decide how to use it. That's been to court more than once, with various bits of copyrighted material (most recently, software that was resold on eBay; previously, movie film that was sold with the expectation that the pictures would be erased & the film used as scrap).
It's also been ruled that if there's no expectation of return of the material (or expiration date for some software), it's a purchase, regardless of what the sales terms say.
A coffee-machine maker can label his devices "For weekend use only" and "for weekday use only," with the intent of getting people to buy both, but he can't legally enforce that.