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It varies for each reader, but the majority(at least the vocal majority) say that if I pay for a book, I should own it fully. It should be mine to move to another e-reader, another PC/laptop, or an...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T01:47:38Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/3459 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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Shantnu Tiwari
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2019-12-08T01:47:38Z (almost 5 years ago)
It varies for each reader, but the majority(at least the vocal majority) say that if I pay for a book, I should own it fully. It should be mine to move to another e-reader, another PC/laptop, or anywhere else. DRM normally doesn't allow this. With DRM, you never really own any book, you just rent it, and it can be removed any time, like it happened with [Amazon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle#Remote_content_removal). You can't give it to friends to read, give it over to charity shops or anything else you can do with paper books. That said, if the big publishers start pushing DRM, there is little the public can do, except boycott e-books. Which is what is stopping many like me from buying an E-reader. In your case, unless you self publish, your publisher will decide the issue for you. If you do self publish, keep in mind that many books that don't have DRM, still sell a lot. People are still honest enough to pay for them.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2011-07-27T07:37:57Z (over 13 years ago)
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