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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
If you buy from indie authors from Amazon, or backlist authors or even some small publishers we have the option of turning off DRM--which means you aren't going to lose your copy. It can be readily converted to other forms.
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Actually, all of what you just stated is--by most definitions that the stores and publishers have embraced--technically piracy as by converting or backing up copies of a Kindle book you are violating the
license you agreed to by purchasing said item:
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Use of Digital Content. Upon your payment of the applicable fees set by Amazon, Amazon grants you the non-exclusive right to keep a permanent copy of the applicable Digital Content and to view, use, and display such Digital Content an unlimited number of times, solely on the Device or as authorized by Amazon as part of the Service and solely for your personal, non-commercial use. Digital Content will be deemed licensed to you by Amazon under this Agreement unless otherwise expressly provided by Amazon.
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A reader doing exactly as you--the author of said work--suggest is in violation of the DMCA and, therefore, pirating your work and implicitly infringing on your copyright and intellectual property.
This, in my view, is as bad as--if not worse--than DRM restrictions and is yet another reason
Smashwords is one of the few stores which receives my business.