Quote:
Originally Posted by CarolB
I ask becuase someone has led my sister to believe that with a Sony and not a Kindle that the books are not yours to keep, they are merely on loan to you and that should the publisher change their minds that they can take the books off your account and you're out of luck.
I thought that as long as you backed them up, that they are yours to keep regardless. Which leads me to several more questions.
First, is having them in your Reader Library considered being backed up on your computer?
Second, can you put Sony files on Calibre and if so, is that a permanent place for them?
Do you need to put them permanently onto a memory card to keep them?
It seems as though there were other questions, but I think this does it for now. Any help would be appreciated!
Thank you!
|
Calibre works very well with the Sony readers, and is more transparent about where your books are stored, so backup is just a matter of copying files. Keeping them in the Reader library on the computer isn't enough really. I would recommend keeping copies on an external disk (or memory card).
Whether you own the ebook in a pure legal sense depends on the terms of both the publisher and the seller, and I expect that there are as many variations of terms as their are stars in the sky.
For practical purposes, other than the Kindle, if you buy an ebook its' yours, and no-one can take it away from you once it's on your reader/computer. Because Kindle has this over-the-air system, Amazon have the capacity to withdraw books (as they famously, but 'accidentally' did with 1984).