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Originally Posted by tompe
You can in most countries legally copy the paper book and then lend the paper book to a friend.
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Not in any country that *I* know of.
There are 2 legal issues with eBooks that generally aren't faced with pBooks. Other than that, your legal rights are the same with both.
1) The license. As someone pointed out, there has been no definitive decision as to whether or not violating the license on an eBook carries any legal penalty. 2) It's also undecided as to whether stripping DRM is a legal violation.
In the case of selling a device with eBooks loaded, DRM or not, #2 wouldn't apply. I'm certain selling the device with books on it wouldn't violate copyright (provided you didn't keep copies of the books), so all that's left is #1. I doubt if a publisher would pursue that, and even if they did I think it's likely that it would be ruled legal.